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DC Nuclear Sharks Cold War Submarine Adventures 2of3 The Scorpion Mystery X264 AC3 MVGroup Forum
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History Documentary hosted by Kenneth Welsh, published by Discovery Channel in 1998 - English narration
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For forty years, the Cold War was also waged beneath the sea between the United States and the USSR. Submarines faced submarines in close-quarter encounters which could have triggered major conflicts on many occasions.
'Nuclear Sharks' explores the silent, stealthy symbol of the Cold War. A war waged outside public view. A war about strategy and world domination. A war of technological advancement, with lethal consequences. By the early 1950's, the United States and the Soviet Union are entrenched in a harrowing conflict many fear will bring an end to humanity. This gripping series reveals the stories of submarines sunk to the bottom, their nuclear power plants in meltdown. Such incidents remained closely guarded military secrets both on the American and the Soviet sides.
'Nuclear Sharks' is a chronicle of chilling adventures which, as Cold War secrets are revealed, can only now be told. 'Nuclear Sharks' takes us into the post-Communist Kremlin, where men who once helped define the nuclear submarine conflict can now freely speak about the Soviet strategy. In Washington, the Navy confesses the crucial importance of the nuclear submarine in the effort to puncture the Iron Curtain. NUCLEAR SHARKS tells the story of the men who gave their lives to a hidden war in the silent deep.
CineNova Production in Association with The Discovery Channel,Canal+,History Television and TFO-TVOntario
2) The Scorpion Mystery
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was one of a number of Skipjack-class nuclear submarines that entered service in the years between 1958 and 1961. In May 1968, at the height of the Cold War, Scorpion disappears in the Atlantic Ocean. The 99 men onboard were on their way home from a classified mission in the Mediterranean facing Soviet submarines.
Scorpion's radioman informed the Communication Station that the submarine was homeward bound, approximately 250 miles southwest of Portugal's Azores Islands, and that they expected to arrive at Naval Station Norfolk at 1300 hours on the 27th of May. This was the last message Scorpion would ever send.
Seven days later, when Scorpion failed to arrive at Norfolk, the US Navy declared the nuclear submarine "missing and presumed lost." Searches, which eventually consisted of more than 50 ships and subs and dozens of aircraft, were conducted immediately. The wreckage of Scorpion was discovered in October that year, along with the bodies of all ninety-nine servicemen on board - and to this day the cause of the sinking of the submarine has been shrouded in mystery and surrounded by controversy.
