Nearly six decades after a Navy submarine plummeted to the bottom of the sea during a deep-dive test, families of those lost in the tragedy are finally getting a look at hundreds of documents about ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The disaster forced safety improvements in the design and quality control of all U.S. Navy submarines. (This article first appeared in January.) Last fall, the U.S. Navy ...

The first of a new tranche of declassified documents from the investigation from the USS Thresher (SSN-593) disaster could be released to the public as early as September, according to a Navy status ...

THE USS THRESHER SANK MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO DURING TESTS OFF THE NEW ENGLAND COASTLINE. WMUR’S JENNIFER CROMPTON EXPLAINS THE NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS INVESTIGATION. JENNIFER C: APRIL 1963, THE USS ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The creation of SUBSAFE following the Thresher disaster led directly to tougher—and safer—submarines. In the United States Navy, submarines lost at sea are said to be ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Navy to begin releasing unclassified documents in relation to the USS Thresher, the nuclear submarine that imploded 57 years ago, taking the ...

WEBVTT REMEMBER THOSE LOST. ADAM: IT IS THE DEADLIEST SUBMARINE DISASTER EVER. ON APRIL 10, 1963, THE USS THRESHER WAS LOST DURING DEEP-DIVING TESTS, SINKING IN 8,000 FEET OF WATER ABOUT 200 MILES OFF ...

Tom Wiley was sitting in his dorm room at Purdue University listening to his transistor radio when he heard about the missing submarine. The radio hadn’t been working lately, but his roommate got it ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A U.S. District Court judge ordered the Navy to start releasing unclassified documents related to the sinking of USS Thresher (SSN-593), 57 years after 129 officers, sailors and ...