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...even tougher than that. Nonetheless, the U.S. Navy is determined to locate the sunken nuclear submarine Thresher, 8,000 ft. down on the cold, dark bottom of the North Atlantic. No wreck has ever been found or even seriously searched for at so great a depth. But for weeks a strange fleet of floating scientific laboratories has been cruising the choppy waters 220 miles east of Cape Cod, and this week the weirdest craft of all is being towed into range. The bathyscaphe Trieste is preparing to dive toward the spot that undersea snapshots have tentatively marked as Thresher...
...suspicious "bump" on the bottom known as Contact Delta. Judged by its size and shape, Delta may well be Thresher's hull, crushed and mangled by water pressure. But getting a good look so that scientists on the surface can make sure has proved to be an elusive problem...
Concentrating her search in a 700 by 200-yard area of prime interest, the Lamont Laboratory research vessel Conrad obtained photographs of the Thresher with her underwater camera system...
NORFOLK, Va. May 30--The Navy announced tonight it has definitely found the sunken submarine Thresher...
...going on sea trials in the normal way." said Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, 63. Then the so-called father of the atomic submarine boarded the Andrew Jackson, first nuclear-powered sub to be tested since the Thresher disaster, and disappeared into the briny off Mare Island, Calif. A Polaris-type ship, the Andrew Jackson went to depths "in excess of 400 feet." carrying with her a psychological burden crucial to the entire U.S. nuclear submarine program. W7hen she returned safely to port some 36 hours later, Rickover issued a terse verdict: "successfully completed initial trials." But Rear Admiral Edward...