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aliases:
- Don Keach
category: Military
created: 2026-05-15
summary: Don Keach was a former U.S. Navy officer and deep-sea explorer at the University
  of Southern California who located a lost hydrogen bomb off Palomares, Spain in
  1966 and facilitated Stephan Schwartz's Project Deep Quest by providing access to
  the submersible Taurus I in 1977.
tags:
- Person
- Navy
- PSI
- RemoteViewing
- 1970s
title: Don Keach
updated: 2026-05-17
---

Don Keach was a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer. He is famous for his role as the submarine pilot who, in 1966, located a lost hydrogen bomb lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Palomares, Spain, after it was jettisoned from a B-52 bomber during a midair collision[^1].

In the fall of 1976, Keach, along with fellow deep-sea explorer [Don Walsh](/people/don-walsh/), was running the Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies at the University of Southern California. During a discussion with [Stephan Schwartz](/people/stephan-schwartz/), a former naval officer interested in psychic research, Keach and Walsh found themselves in a position to assist Schwartz with an ambitious experiment[^1].

They were able to provide Schwartz with rare access to the *Taurus I*, a state-of-the-art, five-man submersible, for three days of sea trials. This opportunity was crucial for Schwartz's [Project Deep Quest](/programs/project-deep-quest/), which aimed to use [Remote Viewing](/concepts/remote-viewing/) to locate a previously unknown shipwreck on the seafloor. Keach's involvement facilitated the use of the submersible for this unique psychic functioning experiment[^1].

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.