Several changes were put in place which became the "Subsafe " requirement
for future boat construction in the sixties. I was assigned to her sister
ship the Barb, SSN-596, from ' 74 - '77 (Refit/overhaul, new core, initial
sea trials, first WestPac). I could have gone aboard Thresher and found my
way blindfolded anywhere aft of frame 52 ( the Nuc half of the boat).
Glenn in West Texas
"Submarines are the only boats the Navy owns"
MM2 (SS)
----- Original Message -----
From: <sparky.2211@cox.net>
To: "Jim Auguston" <jauguston@msn.com>; "joseph lance"
<jolylance@earthlink.net>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:40 PM
Subject: [Land-speed] Thresher
> Lance---I from what I "heard" thre was a bad design of the emergency blow
> system---when the air went though the vale orfice when they tried to
> emergency blow the tanks-it iced up from the pressure drop---relulting in
> no emergency assent
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