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I worked for a former US Naval Captain who was also a diesel sub captain during the 50's and 60's. At one time we were discussing the loss of the Scorpion. He related to me his theory which after reading the article above, makes perfect sense. According to him, at the time the Navy was experimenting with high speed operations, with nuclear submarines, close to crush depth in order to limit the effects of propeller cavitation and the associated noise because of the immense sea pressure at that depth. That would be perfectly logical in that at say 1500 ft the sea pressure is about 750 psi and would allow high power applications to the screw without forming a cavitation bubble, thereby allowing high speed and minimal chance of detection. His point was however, if you were operating in such a configuration, and had a malfunction with, for example depth control, you would exceed crush depth before you had an opportunity to react. You can see that the torpedo room is intact and all evidence point to an implosion, therefore I would say that his theory is a very plausible explanation for what happened.