[Land-speed] Thresher

[Glenn Neimeyer]

  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 at cox.net>
To: "Jim Auguston" <jauguston at msn.com>; "joseph lance" 
<jolylance at earthlink.net>; <land-speed at 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