[Portcall24]

If you read a book called Blind Mans Bluff they describe how a tiny piece of membrane in the batteries broke down and created a hot running torpedo. A great read by the way. I had always heard a valve was incorrectly installed in the Thresher.

[Jambe]

Not true.

[j_tull]

It’s not that the valves were incorrectly installed. The changes in the design of submarine seawater and ballast control systems were profound as the the result of the loss of Thresher. Biggest problem, air compressed in to high pressure air banks was not thoroughly dried. The rapid decompression that occurs during a main ballast tank blow is a significant endothermic event. When the air is not dry, ice forms in the curves and narrow parts of the pipe. When the air passages ice up, no air flows, if the MBTs ain’t dry, and you can’t get more air into them, you ain’t coming up, especially if you are taking on water.

[Rebelbase]

“If you read a book called Blind Mans Bluff they describe how a tiny piece of membrane in the batteries broke down and created a hot running torpedo.”

Center fuel tank theory?

[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.