Former President Jimmy 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 the Navy submarine base in King's Bay, Ga., 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.
He stood on the flying bridge of the submarine secured by a red harness as the vessel came into the St. Mary's River and tied up to a dock.
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"This is an element of my life, I would say is almost pre-eminent," Carter said.