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Navy Diver Enrolls Here
Will Study Ocean, ‘Frontier Of Future 9
An internationally renown ex
plorer of the ocean depths en
rolled for graduate work in
oceanography this week at A&M.
He is Lt. Commander Donald
Walsh, who joined Jacques Pic
card of Switzerland in recording
the deepest ocean dive in history
in 1960. They went down seven
miles in the batyscaph Trieste
to the ocean floor of the Mari
anas Trench, 200 miles south
west of Guam in the Pacific
Ocean.
For his part in the record-
shattering dive, Commander Wel
sh received the Legion of Merit
from the President of the United
States and numerous other
awards from various organiza
tions, including recognition as
one of the 10 outstanding young
men in the nation in 1960 by
the Junior Chamber of Com
merce.
Commander Walsh, although on
full time duty with the Navy,
will be on scholarship for his
work toward a masters degree
in oceanography. His aim is to
gain the academic background to
allow him to advance in the
oceanographic field.
“The people in the oceanogra
phy department have really giv-.
en me a break, and I am grate
ful for the opportunity to apply
myself,” Commander Walsh com
mented. “I looked over the of
ferings of several schools and
decided A&M has the best gen
eral background in Abe country
for all around training in ocean
ography.”
A graduate of the U. S. Naval
Acadmey, Walsh has 11 years of
service in the Navy, but says
he has always been a sailor.
Asked if he planned to get his
doctorate at A&M, Walsh com
mented, “That would be pre
sumption s of me to say. Right
now, I don’t know whether I can
do the graduate work. I’ll tell
you this. I’m really going to
try.”
“Inner space is the frontier of
the future, even more than outer
space, although there’s no com
parison now,” he said.
“The Navy is trying to make
the ocean transparent, but is
just on the threshold of solving
the problem. We are thinking
now in thousands of yards, when
the problem is thousands of
miles. I want to be one of the
pioneeds of innerspace explora
tion.”
Commander Walsh’s exploits
with the “Trieste” have been
written and illustrated in Life
magazine. Reader’s Digest, the
National Geographic and other
publications. He has traveled
thousands of miles and made
hundreds of talks about the dive
and the future of oceanography.
“There’s not enough training
of oceanographic scientists.
Where else can man go to pio
neer but the ocean,” he explain
ed. “I’m not knocking aero
space, but man is ready to leap
into the cosmos although 71 per
cent of our planet is virtually un
known.”
“The Soviets have the largest
oceanographic program in the
world, but the U. S. is taking
steps to achieve parody and
superiority. In times of cold
war tension of powerful submar
ine force could strangle world
trade, and 98.2 per cent of world
trade is by ships. We have to
defend against a surprise missle
attack from beneath the sea.
And we have to prepare a de
fense of the sea lanes of com
merce,” he continued.
Commander Walsh plans to
continue “telling the gospel” for
the Navy and in behalf of ocean
ographic progress. He is sche
duled to speak at the Smithson
ian Institute Feb. 17 on “The
U. S. and the Oceans.”
The 33-year old officer has a
varied background. A native of
Berkeley, Calif., he won a com
petitive appointment to the Nav
al Academy in 1950. He served
two years aboard a cargo ship
after graduation before joining
the submarine service. In 1959
he was made officer in carge of
Bathyscaph Trieste, a post he
held for three and one-half years.
Commander Walsh lacks only
his thesis for a masters degree
in political science from San
Diego State College. He plans to
complete that work in addition to
a self-study course toward a gen
eral law education.
Hobbies are numerous for
Walsh. Photography, sailing,
scuba diving and travel are ma
jor interests.
His wife, Joan, plans to do
work at A&M toward a degree
in zoology.
“I’s one of the few things Don
doesn’t know a lot about,” she
confided. She, too, is a photo
graphy bug, likes to travel, and
plans to take instruction in
scuba diving here.
The Walshs live at 405 Fair
way in Bryan.
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. . . veteran oceanographer enrolls.
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