Dawn Wright Becomes First Black Person To Explore Earth’s Deepest Point

Essence Magazine:

screenshot via CBS News By Bry'onna Mention· Updated September 26, 2022

An oceanographer, known as “Deep-Sea Dawn” has gone where no other Black person has ever gone before.

At 61, Dawn Wright descended to the planet’s deepest point to bring back the first high-resolution mapping of Challenger Deep. Wright, a specialist in marine geology and geography at the Environmental Systems Research Institute is the 27th person to travel to

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