>> After a while I realized that meant:
they were messing around with new technology and water depths.
He was full of crap.
There are very few things that are comparable in the Thresher and Scorpion sinkings except for the end result.
And neither was about “messing around at water depths” with the implication that they intentionally went too deep.
I did not mean it that way.
If the gauges fail,
if the pumps fail,
if the welding fails,
if the engineering specifications fail,
you are faced with the unforgiving water depth.
(was what I meant)