STP.
I was on 652.
The “puffer fish”!
I was on 652 too for my last 6 months in the Navy. I was on 616 and 588 before that.
Many many years ago, I came in contact with a guy
who said his background was Naval Intelligence...
(who knows if it was true???)
Anyhow, I asked what he knew about Thresher and Scorpion,
and he said something like
“they went somewhere they should not have gone”.
At the time I thought that meant:
they were messing around with the Russians.
After a while I realized that meant:
they were messing around with new technology and water depths.
Went too deep and crushed their hulls...
maybe because of a lot of things...
bad gauges, bad piping, bad information...whatever...
Many a good man lies in Davy Jone’s Locker.
651 had a bad day too