On April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher was performing some deep-water testing in the Atlantic. As the lead ship of the Thresher class, she signified the latest iteration of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered attack submarines. Now “deep-water” was something of a misnomer since, relatively speaking, submarines at that time didn’t go beyond 1,500 feet below the [...]
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