The families of the Scorpion’s crew were at the pier in Charleston waiting on her to dock. It never came in. The families went home and the Navy started looking. It’s off the Azores Islands. They found it and came up with a battery well explosion story. The pictures look like a blowing in not a blowing out. My 2 cents worth. Sometimes you play too rough.
I have a source which I trust that has told me it was sunk by a Russian sub, but since it took out the sub that killed it, everyone thought it best to just leave the matter be.