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Different things.

USS Thresher was a physical failure due to a faulty weld in the lead class of a submarine type that was revolutionary.

USS Scorpion was lost to one of two things: An enemy torpedo (possibly a retaliation for the K-129 lost in a collision with a US sub out in the Pacific, and later partially salvaged by the Glomar Explorer) or a hot running torpedo inside her own hull that detonated by accident while maintenance was being performed.

In either case, neither of these was due to a primary error of human interpretation or instrumentation failure.

This near catastrophe was more akin to the loss of a billion dollar B-2 that crashed in Guam due to the failure of a sensor that gave faulty instrumentation readings, causing the computer controlled fly-by-wire to crash the plane.

I personally feel we are not getting the true story. I sense this is going to be less a failure of equipment than it will turn out to be poor training or poor execution of duties due to the woke status of the Royal Navy, a weakness much like the US Navy.