---
aliases:
- Don Walsh
born: 1931-11-02
category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
died: 2023-11-12
location: Berkeley, California
summary: Don Walsh is a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer, known
  for achieving the deepest dive ever undertaken.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
---

Don Walsh is a renowned deep-sea explorer and former naval officer, known for achieving the deepest dive ever undertaken. In 1960, along with a crewmate, he descended to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, a feat that would not be replicated for another fifty-two years[^1].

In the fall of 1976, Walsh, along with fellow deep-sea explorer [Don Keach](/people/don-keach/), was running the Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies at the University of Southern California. They provided [Stephan Schwartz](/people/stephan-schwartz/) with access to the *Taurus I*, a state-of-the-art submersible, for three days of sea trials. This access 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[^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.