Friday, August 12, 2005

AP: Carter Takes Dive in Namesake Submarine

By RON WORD, Associated Press Writer

KINGS BAY, Ga. - Former President Carter completed his first submarine dive since he left the Navy in 1953 aboard a new nuclear vessel that bears his name.

The USS Jimmy Carter pulled into this Navy submarine base Friday after a night of cruising below the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the Georgia coast.

It is the first submarine named after a living ex-president. Carter, 80, was a submariner during his time in the Navy after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy.

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