"Real Story of Scorpion?" Topic

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Editor in Chief Bill	21 May 2019 9:18 p.m. PST
Tabloids might call this "the untold story" of what caused the sinking of the submarine Scorpion in 1968. Probabilities that a Soviet torpedo, or safety and maintenance shortcomings, were to blame are extremely remote, according to the Special Assistant for Submarines to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development at the time. All the evidence, he says, points to a more probable cause… link
Lion in the Stars	22 May 2019 6:49 a.m. PST
Yeah, that's a really grim possibility. But I still think it was a Jam Dive, as I have explained before.
coopman	24 May 2019 1:19 p.m. PST
Good article and comments following it. Thanks.

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