MTS San Diego Submariner’s Life Story: A Good Read

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 Dark Seas explores a Cold War submarine's incredible, covert missions. Despite immense risks and enemy patrols, the vessel's crew performed daring underwater operations. Their clandestine efforts involved advanced technology and intense pressure, profoundly impacting the global political landscape. 

Blind Man's Bluff - A documentary about cold war submarine secrets.

USS Baton Rouge (SSN-689): The US Los Angeles class submarine that collided with a Soviet Sierra-Class and never returned to full duty.
 

Operation Ivy Bells was an American secret mission launched by the US Navy, the NSA, and the CIA, whose objective was to place wiretaps on Soviet underwater communications lines to collect as much information as possible from their opponents during the Arms Race. 

A faint line slid through the background noise, just a smudge on the screen. It was August 2009, and most days at Fleet Intelligence Command were spent on drills and monitoring shipping traffic. However, this ping caused the analyst to pause. It had rhythm. Precision. It was neither commercial nor friendly.
 

The first of its class and leading the way to sweeping US Navy Submarine build standards change, the USS Thresher (SSN-593) was tragically lost with all hands on April 10, 1963 and is on Eternal Patrol. 

How the Americans Stole a Soviet Nuclear Submarine: The CIA’s Most Daring Operation.

 On January 8, 2005, USS San Francisco was transiting submerged at 525 feet depth off the coast of Guam when her bow collided catastrophically with an uncharted underwater seamount.  Traveling at flank speed of thirty-three knots, the submarine’s bow was compressed violently against the rocky mountain face, crushing the sonar dome and flooding the forward compartments.