Syneca Research Group
The Syneca Research Group describes an unusual possible fate for Dorado: they assert the boat's sea trials were marred by a fire, a submerged grounding, and difficulties in diving the boat and keeping her submerged. They also believe they have evidence that aircraft pilots in the early 1970s were familiar with the remains of a submarine conning tower that stuck up out of the sandy bottom just off the Mexican coast—a handy reference point, especially easy to spot when the rising or setting sun threw the sail's silhouette across the white sand. However, since the 1970s, drifting sand has covered the site. Dorado's buoyancy problems are cited to support the possibility that the bombing killed her crew, but left the boat in a buoyant condition so that she did not sink to the ocean floor, but rather drifted some 900 nmi (1,700 km) in the currents of the Caribbean Sea until she grounded in the shallow water near the coast.
A memorial to Dorado has been constructed in the Veterans Memorial Park in Wichita, Kansas on the Arkansas River.
A 614-page book entitled "USS DORADO (SS-248): On Eternal Patrol" was published by Douglas E. Campbell in November 2011. ISBN 978-1-257-95155-0
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