The Explorers' Club, № CMLI

Operation AXIOM: The Submarines of 1968, Part IV
22 May 1968: The Wreck of the U.S.S. Scorpion SSN-589—The American submarine Scorpion disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean, with ninety-nine souls aboard; search & rescue efforts were not launched until she was overdue at her home port on 27 May; the wreck was located in October 1968; the Scorpion had been overhauled in 1967, but had not been brought into SUBSAFE compliance.

Commentary: The Scorpion was the fourth submarine, from four different nations, to disappear mysteriously during a four-month span in 1968, following the Israeli Dakar (25 January), the French Minerve (27 January), & the Soviet K-129 (8 March).

Requiescat in pace.