mapping the deep 6 Victor and Caladan are also fully engaged with these ocean-mapping efforts, having donated more than 1.5 million square kilometers (579,153 square miles) of bathymetric data collected over four years of expeditions. And then, of course, there’s the fact of who Dawn is: She’s the first Black person and just the fifth woman ever to make the descent to Challenger Deep. She’s acutely aware of the significance of that fact, and she hopes it will serve to inspire women and people of color to enter realms of science and exploration that were once inaccessible to them, by common practice if not by policy. During her expedition, Dawn (left) simultaneously promotes two ocean mapping initiatives with a banner and a T-shirt. She is pictured here with Rochelle Wigley (right), representing Map the Gaps, also a major flag-bearer for Seabed 2030 and the official mapper on Dawn’s expedition, collecting and processing all the bathymetry for inclusion in the Seabed 2030 compilation.
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