{"title":"Bruce Rule","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"why-the-uss-scorpion-ssn-589-was-lost-the-death-of-a-submarine-in-the-north-atlantic-hardcover","title":"Why the USS Scorpion (SSN 589) Was Lost: The Death of a Submarine in the North Atlantic - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn their official report of 29 January 1970, the SCORPION Structural Analysis Group (SAG), which included the Navy's leading experts in submarine design, submarine structures, and the effect of underwater explosions, advised the Navy Court of Inquiry (COI) that the US nuclear submarine SCORPION was lost on 22 May 1968 becase of the violent explosion of the main storage battery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The COI disregarded that assessment and concluded SCORPION was lost because of the \"explosion of (a) large charge weight externalto the submarine's pressure hull.\" That erroneous conclusion which, by default, has become the Navy's explanation for the tragedy, contributed to the conspiracy theory that SCORPION was sunk by a Soviet torpedo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book includes six letters sent to the Navy from 2009 to 2011. These letters provide the results of the first reanalysis in 40 yeears of acoustic detections of the loss of SCORPION. This reanalysis confirms the 1970 SAG battery-explosion assessment and provides important new information on the loss of SCORPION.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The author was the lead acoustic analyst at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) for 42 years, ending in 2007. ONI did not receive any SCORPION acoustic data until the author provided it in October 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book includes a prologue signed by 96 members of the Scorpion families asking the Navy to bring forth further information on the causes of the tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367534297311,"sku":"9781608881208","price":50.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UHLYL4Pd2O9781608881208.webp?v=1789109766"},{"product_id":"why-the-uss-thresher-ssn-593-was-lost-hardcover","title":"Why the USS Thresher (SSN 593) Was Lost - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe US nuclear submarine THRESHER (SSN-593) was lost because standard compensation procedures to adjust for hull compression during the deep-dive on 10 April 1963 were not followed. Consequently, THRESHER was heavy (negatively buoyant) at test-depth (1300 feet) and unable to deballast because adiabatic cooling froze moisture in the air-lines to the ballast tanks, blocking those lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOperation of the Reactor (Main) Coolant Pumps in FAST (2-pole mode) may have contributed to a reactor scram (shut-down) and loss of propulsion at 0909.0R (local time). THRESHER sank at an average rate of 120ft\/min from test-depth (1300-feet) at 0909.0R to collapse at 09:18:24R at a depth of 2400-feet (1070 psi) in 1\/20th of a second, too fast to be cognitively recognized by those aboard who - although they knew collapse was imminent - never knew it was occurring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Navy Court of Inquiry (COl) dismissed the results of their own test which established conclusively that flooding at test-depth - the COI's assessed cause of the disaster - would have been a catastrophic\u003cbr\u003e event and would not have been reported by THRESHER to her escort ship, the USS SKYLARK (ASR 20), at 0913R as \"experiencing minor difficulties.\" Multiple lines of evidence - discussed in detail by Chapter\u003cbr\u003e 1 of this assessment - confirm there was no flooding prior to collapse of the pressure-hull at great depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367535313119,"sku":"9781608881680","price":37.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xVqn2veaxj9781608881680.webp?v=1789109768"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/bruce-rule.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}