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screenshot via CBS News An oceanographer, often 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 primary high-resolution mapping of Challenger Deep. Wright, a specialist in marine geology and geography on the Environmental Systems Research Institute is the twenty seventh person to travel to the Challenger Deep. The fifth woman overall.  Wright, who grew up in Maui, Hawaii told CBS News, the dream to change into an oceanographer stemmed from the Apollo 11 Mission. “If those men could land on the moon, I assumed, ‘Why can’t I'm going the wrong way and explore the oceans?’” she told the outlet.  As expected Wright struggled in...