USS Thresher (SSN-593) in 1961. US Navy History and Heritage Command photo
The rolling release of a previously secret report and investigation of the 1963 loss of USS Thresher (SSN-593), the Navy’s worst submarine disaster, is providing new lessons for today’s sailors and shipbuilders, said the former submarine commander who brought suit to declassify the documents.
Now that the documents are declassified, submarine safety instructors, “can take it home, read it and take it into the classroom,”...