Ah, “journalists”....the kid “drew the boat on the ocean floor”. I had in my mind the kid sitting on the bottom of the ocean with a piece of paper and a crayon.
As for the Thresher, I became obsessed with this story as a kid. I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Your mind pictured a kid sitting on the bottom of the ocean???
There are a lot of ships sunk off New England....in 1998, I almost had my boat sunk by a sub in Long Island Sound. (I was cruising... and about 1 mile from me I saw a sub surfacing. IIRC, I think it was the USS Hartford.)