The Scorpion is a Foxtrot-class Russian submarine. It is 300 feet long, 24 feet wide at its widest point and carried 78 crew members. Foxtrot subs prowled along the eastern border of the former Soviet Union and around Japan, Korea, Viet Nam and India on surveillance missions. The Scorpion was built in 1972 in Leningrad and remained in service until 1994. When it was decommissioned it was sold to an Australian company and towed to Sydney where it was viewed by half a million people. The Queen Mary has leased the sub from the Australians for five years. It was brought to Long Beach aboard a semi-submersible, heavy-lift carrier ship. As a tourist attraction in California, the Scorpion has enjoyed a happier fate than many Russian subs. The submarine below has been abandoned and sits rusting, stuck in the ice, near Vladivostok on Russia's Pacific coast.