Dark Seas Official on MSN

The classified loss of USS Thresher and the secrets it revealed

When USS Thresher vanished during deep dive trials, the Navy sealed the investigation for decades. After documents were ...
Waterline Stories on MSN

This submarine was lost in seconds because one pipe failed

USS Thresher was conducting routine deep-dive trials when disaster began quietly in the engine room. A silver-brazed pipe joint failed, spraying high-pressure seawater into electrical systems. The ...
NBC Los Angeles

60 years before Titan implosion, loss of 129 aboard US Navy sub changed safety standards

The implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible last week, which killed the five people on board, has put the safety of ocean exploration in the spotlight — as did another Northern Atlantic underwater ...
WUSA

Remembering and learning from the USS Thresher, 57 years later

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — It goes down in the history books as one of the Navy's darkest days: April 10th, 1963. The USS Thresher sunk that day. All 129 men aboard perished. The USS Thresher became the ...