U.S. Navy Capt. Don Walsh is a living legend. Mention this to him, and he just laughs. “There are a whole lot of people out there who’ve done a whole lot more than I have, and they never get recognized,” the 91-year-old says. “I hate to tell you, but you’re really in the presence of a fraud.”
Not really. In 1960, as part of a USN project, Walsh and the late Jacques Piccard took the bathyscaphe Trieste to Challenger Deep at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth nearly seven miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. But not without drama.
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