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Video recording is courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding, Dept. O36 Training Services. DVD copies are available from The Mariners' Museum.
On April 10, The Mariners' Museum commemorated the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the USS Thresher with renowned naval and intelligence consultant and author, Norman Polmar. Taken from his book, The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster, Polmar recounted the dramatic circumstances surrounding her implosion, which killed all 129 men on board, and the lessons the Navy learned. It was the first loss of a nuclear submarine in history and one which would later cause the Navy to send Dr. Robert Ballard, under the guise of the search for the RMS Titanic, on a top-secret mission to map and collect data on the nuclear fuel.
Norman Polmar has been a consultant to several senior officials in the Navy and Department of Defense, the Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and several U.S. Senators. Polmar has written or coauthored more than 50 books and numerous articles on naval, intelligence, and aviation subjects and is a columnist for Proceedings and Naval History magazines.
This lecture is made possible by the generous support of Tom and Nancy Clark.