List of people who descended to Challenger Deep information
List of people who descended to Earth's deepest point
The Challenger Deep (CD) is the deepest known point in the Earth's seabed hydrosphere, a slot-shaped valley in the floor of Mariana Trench, with depths exceeding 10,900 meters.[1] It is located in the Federated States of Micronesia.[2] In 2019, sonar mapping of Challenger Deep by the DSSV Pressure Drop, which employed a Kongsberg SIMRAD EM124 multi beam echosounder system, showed the bottom of Challenger Deep comprised three 'pools' – Western, Central and Eastern.[3]
In 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first two humans to reach Challenger Deep, completing that dive as a team.[4] 52 years later, James Cameron became the first person to solo dive that point. Piccard, Walsh and Cameron remained the only people to reach the Challenger Deep until 2019, when regular dives in DSV Limiting Factor began. To date, 19 of the 22 successful descents have been made in the DSV Limiting Factor. No other craft has made a repeat descent.
Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan and mountaineer Vanessa O'Brien were the first two women to visit Challenger Deep in 2020.[5] Victor Vescovo has made the most dives to Challenger Deep; by August 2022 he had made eleven dives to the Eastern pool, two to the Western pool, and two to the Central pool for a total of 15 dives.[6][7]
The following is a list of individuals who have descended to Challenger Deep in the Federated States of Micronesia. These individuals will have descended at least 10,900 m (35,761 ft) into one of the three pools (western, central or eastern) that constitute Challenger Deep.[8][9]
Date
Name
Submersible
Location
Notes
January 23, 1960
Don Walsh
Jacques Piccard
Trieste
Western Pool
World first; depth record
March 25, 2012
James Cameron[10]
Deepsea Challenger
Eastern Pool
First solo
April 28, 2019
Victor Vescovo[10]
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
Depth record; two solo dives. First person to reach Earth's highest and lowest points.[11]
May 1, 2019
Patrick Lahey[10]
Jonathan Struwe[10]
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
Deepest marine recovery
May 5, 2019
John Ramsay[12]
Limiting Factor
Central Pool
Limiting Factor's designer. Pilot: Lahey
June 7, 2020[13]
Kathryn Sullivan
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
First woman and first astronaut. Pilot: Vescovo
June 12, 2020[14]
Vanessa O'Brien
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
First woman to Earth's highest and lowest points.[15][16] Pilot: Vescovo
June 14, 2020
John Rost[17]
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
Longest time at bottom: 4.2 hours. Pilot: Vescovo
June 20, 2020
Kelly Walsh[18]
Limiting Factor
Western Pool
Son of Don Walsh. First father and son. Pilot: Vescovo
June 22, 2020
Ying-Tsong Lin[19]
Limiting Factor
Central Pool
First Asian person. Pilot: Vescovo
June 26, 2020
Jim Wigginton
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
Oldest person. Pilot: Vescovo[20]
November 10, 2020
Zhāng Wěi 张伟 [21]
Zhào Yáng 赵洋 [21]
Wáng Zhì Qiáng 王治强 [21]
Fendouzhe (奋斗者, Striver)
Eastern Pool
First PRC citizens. Pilot: Zhāng Wěi 张伟 [22][23][24][25]
March 1, 2021
Richard Garriott
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
First to both poles, space and Challenger Deep. First male astronaut to Challenger Deep. Pilot: Vescovo [26][27]
March 3, 2021
Michael Dubno
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
First Jewish person
Pilot: Vescovo[27]
March 5, 2021
Hamish Harding
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
Records for longest time at bottom (4.25 hours) and longest traverse at bottom (4.6 km). First crew to go to space and Challenger Deep together. Pilot: Vescovo[27][28][29][30]
March 11, 2021
Nicole Yamase
Limiting Factor
Western Pool
First Pacific Islander. Pilot: Vescovo[27]
April 8, 2021
Rob McCallum
Tim Macdonald
Limiting Factor
Western Pool
First New Zealander[31] and first Australian.[31] Pilot: Macdonald[32]
April 15, 2021
Larry Connor
Limiting Factor
Pilot: Patrick Lahey[33]
July 3, 2022
Aaron Newman
Limiting Factor
Central Pool
Pilot: Vescovo
July 5, 2022
Jim Kitchen
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
Pilot: Tim Macdonald [34]
July 7, 2022
Dylan Taylor
Limiting Factor
Eastern Pool
Pilot: Vescovo
July 12, 2022
Dawn Wright
Limiting Factor
Western Pool
First Black person. Pilot: Vescovo [35]
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^"Chinese Manned Submersible Reaches Deepest Part of Mariana Trench". interestingengineering.com. 26 November 2020. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
^"Astronaut-explorer sets records on dive to deepest point on Earth". collectspace.com. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
^ abcd"Victor Vescovo and Passengers Accomplish Additional Dives to Challenger Deep". rovplanet.com. 24 March 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
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^"Dawn Wright becomes first Black person to reach the deepest known spot on Earth". CBS. 22 September 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
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