Time to drag up the
Scorpion again. I must be a masochist.
First of all, if the Soviets wanted to sink an American submarine for "revenge," why not sink one that was already snooping around inside one of their naval bases? It's be a whole lot easier to hide "the deed" that way, they'd know
exactly where the wreck was, and they'd have a goldmine of intelligence material right in their laps. If you believe Ed Offley or Jerome Preisler, they were stupid enough to sink one in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in full "view" of underwater hydrophones, completely out of their reach, and when the Americans found the wreck, it'd be pretty obvious what really sank the boat. You'd also have to believe that the Russians were bloodthirsty warmongers who were willing to risk World War III to make a point to the US.
Thankfully, everything about the state of the
Scorpion wreck suggests that some sort of catastrophe occurred, and the boat sank below crush depth with it's torpedo room flooded, with no evidence of any internal or external explosion anywhere to be found.
Unfortunately, I'm not receiving national media attention and a book deal for making this post.
