Five years later, the Navy suffered the loss of a Skipjack-class attack submarine under mysterious circumstances. On May 22, 1968, the USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lost with 12 officers and 87 sailors .

The USS Scorpion was a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy that sank on May 22nd, 1968, with 99 crew members aboard. None survived. The cause of its sinking is ...