Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer and Oregonian who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean
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Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the Mariana Trench, died at his Myrtle Point home.
Retired Navy Capt. Don Walsh, an explorer who in 1960 was part of a two-man crew that made the first voyage to the deepest part of the ocean to the “snuff-colored ooze” at the bottom of the Pacific’s Mariana Trench has died. He was 92.