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It takes a special type of person to serve in a nation's navy, especially on long voyages that independent men and women from their loved ones, no service is both liked and hated as that aboard submarines, for very few people ever serve on them on the whim. For one thing, the subconscious impact to be trapped for very long periods underwater in small, cramped quarters is more than many people can stand. Also, submarine service is uncharacteristically harmful; after all, if the surface vessel is sunk, the staff has a reasonable chance of escaping fatality in lifeboats or being rescued from the normal water by another ship. Conversely, if the submarine is terribly harmed while submerged, the crew's chances of survival are in best remote. Alternatively, for many who choose to make the jobs as submariners, there is no more precious service. That is, one desires, how it was for the 99 men who were providing on the USS Scorpion on May 22, 1968, the fateful day the submarine is believed to have sank. It would appear that the crew associates passed away quickly, but however it took place, the grief experienced by their family dragged on for decades, exacerbated both by the Navy's insufficient information about the submarine's final moments and the government's unwillingness to share what little knowledge it possessed.
