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Don Walsh

Walsh th 60 Anniversary of Trieste’s Deep Dive

By Regina Ciardiello

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay be the ? rst person (with Jacques Picca- 35,840 feet. For this achievement, Lieu-

Area, Capt. Don Walsh decided to join rd) to travel to the furthest ocean depths tenant Walsh received a medal from the U.S. Navy at Naval Air Station onboard the submersible Bathyscaph U.S. President Eisenhower at the White

Oakland in 1948, where he became an Trieste (Trieste). House. aircrewman in torpedo bombers. Two During his tenure as Of? cer-in-Charge In the years following the Trieste expe- years later, he entered the U.S. Naval of Trieste, Capt. Walsh was designated dition, Commander Walsh served from

Academy, and in 1956, he enrolled in USN Deep Submersible Pilot #1. In 1970-1975 on duty in Washington DC submarine school. Little did he know January 1960, he and Piccard dove in as Special Assistant (Submarines) to the that four years later — in 1960 — he’d Trieste to the deepest place in the ocean: Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Re-

Above Left: At 88 years young, Capt. Walsh still runs the day-to-day operations of International Maritime, a consulting company he established in 1976. Above Right: The Trieste as it appeared in 1960 on the cover of Popular Mechanics

Magazine. (Captain Walsh owns the original art)

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