Retired Submarine Commander Sues Navy to Release USS Thresher Investigation

USNI News ^ | August 11, 2019 7:40 PM | Ben Werner

[Pollster1]

We know in great detail exactly what happened to Thresher and to Scorpion, with almost no uncertainty. There are several rumors. Whether or not the US-Soviet clash rumor is correct, as I said: “The first rule of the Silent Service is you do not talk about the loss of Scorpion.”

[sparklite2]

We know in great detail exactly what happened to Thresher

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Is there somewhere I could read them?

[ought-six]

“We know in great detail exactly what happened to Thresher and to Scorpion, with almost no uncertainty.”

I would hope so.

[DiogenesLamp]

That article only covers part of what I have been told, and I was told what I was told back in the late 1980s.

If what I have been told is true, the Navy knows fully well what happened to the Scorpion.

[_Jim]

Would, um, say, a country like, oh, say, China have any interest in reading a deep technical report, previously classified, of what went wrong in a deep sea diving nuclear submarine?

[possumpappy]

My ex-shipmate on USS Grampus SS 523 was an Electricians Mate Chief on the Thresher—it was sad to hear his name called as one of the crew.

[Pollster1]

Is there somewhere I could read them?

That is what the commander is asking for. Almost everything is classified, much of it perhaps overclassified.

[minnesota_bound]

#9 Imploded in a blink of an eye. Pressure set everyone on fire then water pressure crushed everything. All in an instant.

The Scorpion sub had the forward 1/3rd of the ship pushed into the rest of the sub.