— -- Shipwreck disaster experts are calling for a deep-sea expedition to a lost U.S. nuclear attack sub, the USS Scorpion, in an effort to verify a new theory on what caused the Cold War vessel ...

Key Points and Summary - The 1968 loss of the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Scorpion with all 99 crew members remains one of the Navy's most haunting and unresolved mysteries. -The submarine disappeared ...

A submarine veterans group is calling for a new investigation of the unexplained accident that sank the U.S. nuclear attack sub USS Scorpion more than 40 years ago. According to USA Today, last month, ...

May 27—GROTON — Fifty-six years ago to the day, a dock reserved for the returning USS Scorpion sat empty while Navy wife Mary Gilbert consoled the ones whose husbands would not return. On Monday, she ...

In 1968, the USS Scorpion, a nuclear-powered submarine, vanished without a trace. This video explores four leading theories behind its sinking - from mechanical failure to Cold War ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- A Navy admiral called it "one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era." Fifty-years ago, on Tuesday, the Norfolk-based submarine USS Scorpion disappeared taking all 99 ...

We will likely never know exactly what happened to the “attack submarine” USS Scorpion, but after 51 years of speculation, we might be getting closer. The ship mysteriously sank on May 22, 1968, in 11 ...

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Here’s What You Need to Remember: The conspiracy theory is that the Scorpion was somehow caught up in some kind of Cold War skirmish, and that the Soviet flotilla had sunk the sub. An unusually high ...

A neoprene-clad diver slipped into the murky water of the Patuxent River near Upper Marlboro Wednesday to examine the wreck of a 19th-century ship that archaeologists and state officials hope to make ...

Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel found the wreckage 73 years after the ship sank. Decades later, Ballard revealed that the dive was actually a secret Cold War Navy mission. Almost immediately ...

Sub carried 2 nuclear torpedoes and nuclear reactor Nuclear attack sub sank in 1968, killing 99 men The Navy denied a recent proposed undersea expedition The saga of the USS Scorpion continues as a ...