Nope.
Doing a “legal” SINKEX is even harder. You STILL have to remove all the hazmat, all the oil (and flush out the tanks and pipes), the asbestos, the electronics, the interiors, the ....
Heaven help us if we ever went to war. Filling out the enviro reports for all the sunken ships and destroyed airplanes off our coasts would bring the DoD and Coast Guard and Navy to a standstill.
My last few years in EOD were hampered by regulations that made it nearly impossible to get permission to use a location to counter-charge a recovered explosive device.
The only caveat was we could bypass the laborious “permission seeking” policy if we stated that immediate disposal of the device constituted an emergency.
About 90% of our calls were deemed “emergencies”.:)))
EODGUY
okay... let me paint you a win win scenario that just may work...
drag it “far enough” out. Blow the dust off a stashed daisey cutter. Remove the extention rod, outfit it with laser guidance and bingo presto! No more ship and hazmat, no more oil. and, we’d help get rid of those in humane mega bombs!
I’m happy with that outcome... (leaning back, feet proped up on desk, lighting a smoke....)
Just make sure we get it on video!