— -- Shipwreck disaster experts are calling for a deep-sea expedition to a lost U.S. nuclear attack sub, the USS Scorpion, in an effort to verify a new theory on what caused the Cold War vessel ...

A submarine veterans group is calling for a new investigation of the unexplained accident that sank the U.S. nuclear attack sub USS Scorpion more than 40 years ago. According to USA Today, last month, ...

Groton ― Fifty-six years ago to the day, a dock reserved for the returning USS Scorpion sat empty while Navy wife Mary Gilbert consoled the ones whose husbands would not return. On Monday, she laid a ...

NEWPORT NEWS — The bell tolled one-by-one Sunday for the names of the 99 sailors who were lost aboard the USS Scorpion 57 years ago. In May 1968, the Norfolk-based nuclear submarine imploded and sank ...

In May 1968, the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion vanished during a Cold War patrol in the Atlantic. A rushed overhaul, ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- A Navy admiral called it "one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era." Fifty-years ago, on Tuesday, the Norfolk-based submarine USS Scorpion disappeared taking all 99 ...

Key point: It is still unknown what exactly sunk the submarine. In May 1968, a U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarine was sent on a secret mission to spy on the Soviet navy. Seven days later, with the ...

A neoprene-clad diver slipped into the murky water of the Patuxent River near Upper Marlboro Wednesday to examine the wreck of a 19th-century ship that archaeologists and state officials hope to make ...

The loss of the Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala in April showed the perils of undersea warfare. It's not the first time; in 1968, four submarines were lost in five months. The causes of those wrecks ...

We will likely never know exactly what happened to the “attack submarine” USS Scorpion, but after 51 years of speculation, we might be getting closer. The ship mysteriously sank on May 22, 1968, in 11 ...

For years, Russ Fennick was wracked with guilt when people would apologize to him for the loss of a father he never knew. Fennick was just 3 months old when Navy Seaman William R. Fennick left Norfolk ...