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Kelly Walsh, 52, spent four hours at the bottom of the Challenger Deep.
He made the dive 60 years after his father created history in doing so.
The 12- hour dive on Saturday saw him reach a depth of approximately 10,925 m.
Kelly described it as “a hugely emotional journey” after returning to the surface.
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Opposition Deep (red pin) is the deepest part of the inmost ocean trench on Earth (depth in metres).
The descent was piloted by the financier and adventurer Victor Vescovo. The Texan is carrying out a series of dives into the most affordable point of the Mariana Trench known as the Opposition Deep.
Mr Vescovo has actually obtained a support ship and human-rated submersible that he is utilizing to survey numerous of the most severe put on the ocean flooring.
Recent travelers who have actually gone down with him to the Opposition Deep include the first women to make the journey – the previous Nasa astronaut Kathy Sullivan and the British-American mountaineer Vanessa O’Brien.
But Kelly Walsh’s descent is especially noteworthy because of his dad, Don. On 23 January, 1960, the then United States Navy officer, accompanied by Swiss national Jacques Piccard, made the first crewed dive to the floor of Earth’s inmost ocean trench utilizing the bathyscaphe Trieste.
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Don Walsh (bottom-right) and Jacques Piccard (top-right) made their historic dive in1960
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