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| Stern-on view, taken at sea on 24 July 1961. Note upper rudder in the foreground, with draft markings painted on its side and navigation light at its top. |
If we could embed this we would. Enough dumbing down.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
A morbid (Why bother w/ the dully cheerful?) anniv.
On this date 50 yrs. ago the submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sprang a leak (not in the hull, but in an internal pipe). The leak is believed to have caused flooding & electrical failure leading to the boat exceeding test depth & imploding at around 2,400 ft. All 129 aboard, 17 of them civilian contractors, were lost. They died for your freedom. And your tax dollars.
If we could embed this we would. Enough dumbing down.
If we could embed this we would. Enough dumbing down.
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What a horrible way to die... crushed into paste.
I remember this!
AWESOME.
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Cold war is cold hell.
On another note, I LOVED Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea when I was young.
But now I wonder - why, if they had these ridiculously advanced nuclear submarines and the iconic "Flying Sub" they always fell back to Thompson Submachine Guns in .45ACP and the good old 1911 Colt, while the enemy preferred the MP-40 Schmeisser. It's almost as if they couldn't imagine the very future they were postulating...
Also Remembers Editor:
Paste-wise, we're amused that this guy wants us to believe the implosion was instantaneous. (In the paragraph below the time-line).
Voyage fan as a yout' here too. (Had one of these, left it black.) Watching now is embarrassing. Had absolutely no idea then.
More like they were AWESOMEly cheap & stupid & couldn't imagine weapons not in the 20th Century-Fox prop dep't.
I can't help but remember, even though it's probably more than 40 years since I read it, the MAD magazine parody of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" that was titled "Voyage to See what's on the Bottom."
Reaching Bottom Editor:
Indeed. We & one of our close personal meatspace associates both remember that.
Good (at least clever) one to have stuck in the mind so long.
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