“[The Thresher] had a cigar-shaped hull that was derived from the research submarine Albacore (AGSS-569) for efficient underwater performance,” The U.S. Naval Institute wrote. “In her bow ...

The Thresher dolphins, the submarine warfare qualification device worn by the late Lt. Cmdr. John Harvey, commanding officer of USS Thresher (SSN 593) before its tragic loss, were passed on to Lt ...

After a data package containing classified photos sank to the seafloor, the U.S. conducted the world’s deepest undersea ...

The gripper is able to lift 1,000 pounds. DSRVs were developed as a result of the USS Thresher submarine accident in 1963, when all hands were lost. At the time, submarine operating depths greatly ...

When the American submarine Thresher sank off the coast of New England in 1963, the Trieste was used to find and photograph the remains at the bottom of the sea.

The Thresher disaster was a “come to Jesus moment” for the Navy, Galeaz said in 2013 and again last week. It led to creation of the Navy’s Submarine Safety Program — SUBSAFE — beginning ...

Lava mound on the East Pacific Rise. Thresher, America's most advanced submarine, sinks in waters a mile and a half deep with the loss of 129 men. Trieste finds the shattered hulk of Thresher on ...

Keeping nuclear submarines afloat is very expensive ... (Over the past thirty years the U.S. Navy has lost two nuclear subs--the Thresher and the Scorpion--and has admitted to dumping one reactor ...

but recounts world-spanning submarine disasters including the USS Thresher, Britain’s HMS Thetis, France’s Minerve, Russia’s Kursk, and China’s Ming 361, along with many more, all while ...