Posted on 04/29/2026 6:21:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
USS-Scorpion: Two Nuclear Torpedoes Still Sit 3,000 Meters Down — And Nobody Can Retrieve Them
In May 1968, USS Scorpion vanished without warning in the Atlantic Ocean — taking 99 men and two nuclear torpedoes to the bottom. Found months later at 3,000 meters depth, the wreck has never been touched. Decades later, the cause of her sinking remains officially unsolved, and those warheads still sit on the ocean floor today.
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Nuclear torpedos like the Mark 45 were anti-harbor weapons. One torpedo would have disabled Haiphong Harbor, for example, back in the day. I served on a boomer (ssbn599) and we carried several and that wasn’t even our mission.
I guess part of it might just have been the uniform, but if my dad had not been on the dais at this Veterans Day event, he might have had that cigarette dangling from his mouth too, as that was an ever-present companion...the unfiltered Pall Mall...lit by his zippo lighter!
He looks like a keeper. Our generation sure had wonderful dads.
"Gojira!"
Typically, nuclear devices do not have the detonator installed; as a rule, this is done only when an attack is imminent—specifically, minutes before launching the device toward its target.
Other subs, especially SSBNs.
“Diversity is much more important than is quality.” - Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, the company responsible for the Titanic submarine. He went down with his sub.
Stockton Rush was a 61-year-old white guy.
“We can train someone to pilot the sub,” he said. “We use a [video-game] controller.”
“When I started the business one of the things you’ll find is there are other sub operators out there, but they typically have gentlemen who are ex-military submariners and you’ll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys. I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational, and [an old white guy is] not going to inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology.”
He passed on in 2000, and I sure do miss him. I found a tape of him giving a Memorial Day speech, and I don’t have any video of him that had sound. It sure affected me, hearing his voice again!
I pretty much hero-worshipped him my entire life.
crazy ending
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