Photo #: NH 97568
Wreck of USS Thresher (SSN-593)
"Parts of a battery recovered by the Navy's bathyscaph Trieste
during the first series of dives June 24th through 30th, 220
miles east of Cape Cod where the nuclear powered submarine Thresher
sank April 10. The centered object is an internal battery grid,
encircled by re-enforcing members."
The original view, from whose caption the quoted text is taken,
was released on 5 September 1963.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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