The submarine's survival, despite severe bow damage, was attributed to the crew following rigorous SUBSAFE protocols, established after the 1963 USS Thresher disaster. The San Francisco was ...

The cause wasn't enemy action ... Though more lives were lost in the USS Thresher's tragic nuclear submarine explosion in 1963, this peacetime disaster remains the most significant loss of Navy ...

The Thresher incident remains one of the most tragic days in the Navy’s history as 129 sailors and crew perished. The cause of the Thresher incident remains controversial, but regardless it ...

Whether one vessel slams into another, there's an otherwise avoidable fire, or a plane misses its landing on a carrier and causes widespread ... chronologically. The USS Thresher (SSN-593) was ...

The response brought to mind the bungled response to the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster, in which most ... test depth” before the nuclear-powered USS Thresher disintegrated under the crushing ...

The response brought to mind the bungled response to the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster, in which most of the 118 members ... “exceeding test depth” before the nuclear-powered USS Thresher ...