I concurr Bozak!
The USN is especially serious when it comes to arc strikes anywhere in or outside of the "Boat" or as everyone else call them - ships!!! I wish I had a nickel for every arc strike I repaired on submarine hulls or inside either within the pressure hull or in the aft or foward main ballast tanks... Then there's the arc strikes that hold pipe hangers or any other weldments that the Navy inspectors wo'nt sign off on so in go the mirror welders like myself that make these type of repairs in some of the darndest places... Cost overruns anyone?
Unfortunately, some of the folks that worked @ EB were classic cases of the wrong person for the job and some of them were basically NUTS!!! I mean, if they got suspended for missing time or insubordination, these poor excuses for human beings would literally commit sabotage within the confines of these submarines!!! The end result was costly repairs to total rip outs of parts, components, piping to complete trim ballast bottles that were situated in between certain hull frames in various compartments within the subs!!!
If they caught these scum or found evidence that they were implicated in doing these childish acts of intentional destruction of government property then, they were handled appropriately and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!!! This type of sabatoge was one of the main reasons why the Los Angeles and Trident/Ohio class - attack & FBM's took so long and cost so much to make asides from the fact that the technology incorporated into these boats at the time of their construction were at that time -state of the art and the prototypes just took longer to complete -PERIOD!!!
Now do'nt get me wrong folks!!! Most of the personnel that worked in hte yards @ EB were very patriotic and focused in their work there... However, all it takes is few isolated incidents where intentional acts of revenge or outright stupidity to delay and increase the costs of such a sophisticated compilation/integration of very complex systems and subsystems that make up the components and parts of a nuclear powered submarine!!!
In summary, after the loss of the "Thresher" and the "Scorpion" submarines of the USN, Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover instituted the USN's SUBSAFE program of quality control that is very strict as Jon mentioned... In fact many civilian code governing bodies have adapted many of the programs strict controls...
That is why most of the ASME nuclear code standards originate from similar standards used by the USN's SUBSAFE standards... Walk into any commercial Nuke plant in the US and most of the folks working there are ex-navy nukes!!! Did anyone ever wonder the reasons why??? Figure it out!!!
Respectfully,
Henry