Titanic search was cover for secret Cold War subs mission

Times Online ^ | 5/24/08 | Lewis Smith

[Interesting Times]

Thresher ping.

[Know et al]

Why would they use a live and armed torpedo in a training exercise? Why did they not have a way to disarm the rogue torpedo? Why did they not have counter measures. If the sub looked like it was run through a shredder, how could they have any idea about the cause of the sinking? Something doesn't smell right.

[ApplegateRanch]

Q: What do these have in common?

John Anthony Walker, Jr

his son, Michael Walker

John Walker Lind

A: They all need a short drop off a tall scaffold.

[sailor4321]

Maybe that’s why it was defective!

[tlb]

>>>I can understand how a visual examination could show that it was destroyed by a torpedo, but how the hell could you tell whose torpedo it was?

Internal blast pattern outward, or not.

[mad_as_he$$]

Thanks for the memory jog. I had forgotten that one. Makes the story even less plausible.

[Vinnie]

Beat me,
‘Assembled in Mexico from US and Chinese parts”

[metesky]

Great book! After I read it I passed it along to an old submariner pal of mine and he had high praise for it.

[null and void]

Yours is better.

[Nailbiter]

One very enlightening book.

[zot]

Thanks for the ping. The loss of Thresher really tore up the little town of Portsmouth, NH, where most of the crew and their families lived.