Posted on 04/04/2013 10:38:25 AM PDT by Saint X
A child’s drawing of a lost submarine rests behind Plexiglas in a back corner of the National Museum of the Navy in Washington, D.C., seemingly out of place amid massive ship models and aircraft dangling from the ceiling.
“USS Thresher/ Bruce Harvey/ crayon,” reads its art-museum-style description. “The young son of Commander John Harvey, skipper of Thresher, drew the boat on the ocean floor after hearing of its loss. Bruce’s father and 128 other men died when the submarine sank off the New England coast.”
Thresher (SSN-593), at the time the Navy’s fastest and most powerful submarine, represented a leap forward in the Cold War fight against the Soviets. When she put to sea for the last time in April 1963, she represented the bleeding edge of undersea warfare.
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The article said he “drew the boat on the ocean floor”. Substitute the word “ocean” with “bedroom” and what do you visualize? As in “He drew the boat on the bedroom floor”.
???at least that would have made some sense to someone reading it, and been confusing...but not sitting on the ocean floor, that’s nonsensical.
The Navy instituted the SUBSAFE program to ensure that weilding on or near the pressure hull did not affect the integrity of the material.
Yes.
In 1963, a deep-sea diving bathyscape, Trieste I and II, “recovered some remains of the ‘Thresher’ submarine which sank off Boston. The sub was first discovered and photographed by ‘Mizar,’ a naval research ship which towed an underwater camera platform.” Link: http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/6154/SPUMS_V7N3_9.pdf?sequence=1
Here are some photos of the search by Mizar:
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-t/ssn593-k.htm
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