James B. Bryant

Captain James B. Bryant, U.S. Navy (Retired), served on three Thresher-class submarines including commanding the USS Guardfish (SSN-612).

Articles by James B. Bryant

Was the Thresher Ready for Sea?

By Captain Jim Bryant, U.S. Navy (Retired), Captain Frederick Best, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired), Commander Ron Ricci, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired), Steve Walsh, and Nick Wulfekuhle

April 2023

Since 2017, a volunteer research team has been studying the Thresher incident, but little information was available until recently.

What Did the Thresher Disaster Court of Inquiry Find?

By Captain Jim Bryant, U.S. Navy (Retired)

August 2021

Some tentative conclusions from the Navy’s release of more than 1,000 pages of Thresher records.

USS Thresher (SSN-593) Disaster: Ten Questions Our FOIA Lawsuit Hopes to Answer

By Captain James B. Bryant, U.S. Navy (Retired), Nick Wulfekuhle, and Steve Walsh

April 2020

The authors provide an update on their July 2019 lawsuit, filed after the Navy refused to release any further records in response to their April 2019 FOIA request.

Watercolor of USS Thresher (SSN-593) underway by Carl G. Evers

Thresher Freedom of Information Act Request Yielding Results

By Captain James B. Bryant, U.S. Navy (Retired)

May 2019

In a partial response to a FOIA request, the U.S. National Archives released a photo essay of pictures from the search for the Thresher in 1963–1964.

Launch of the USS Thresher (SSN-593) at at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 9 July 1960

Declassify the Thresher Data

By Captain James B. Bryant, U.S. Navy (Retired)

July 2018

The Navy should release important documents on the loss of the submarine