Submarine Disaster: Nation Mourns 129 Lost On Thresher

I conclude with great regret and sadness that the submarine Thresher is lost - with those words Admiral George Anderson, chief of naval operations, mounted an epitaph for 129 men aboard the nuclear craft. After an overhaul, the Thresher, fastest and deepest diving of all submarines, was on a test dive in 8.400 feet of water, 200 miles east of Boston, accompanied by the tender Skylark. Presumably the Thresher rests on the ocean's bottom. Her fate recalls a happier one - that of the Squalus in 1939. With a diving bell the navy was able to rescue the 33 men who were still alive.