still.. only 5 or so in the past decade or more. An outlier in accidents now only means either naval activity is at its highest or there is an exponential increase in naval traffic on the safeguarded routes the US navy follows, could be both idk
Also the naval academy is extremely difficult for the average American to get into. So the officers that come out of it are among the smartest in all of our armed forces. I remember a nuclear propulsion officer program they used to recruit MIT students for