Posted on 10/21/2024 12:00:45 PM PDT by Red Badger
Oops! The Oriskany was an aircraft carrier, not a battleship.
Its non-profit owners had attempted to save and restore it (certainly against great odds and huge costs), but now getting rid of it by sinking it is being portrayed as some kind of great environmental and tourist benefit.
My dad has an ashtray/jewelry dish from when he sailed on it as a teenager.
Our county is paying $10 million for the privilege...........
Sickening! I’ve past it countless times at the pier. I really thought someone would repurpose it and not sink it! The ship is absolutely magnificent in its engineering and legacy. Now it’s going to be a diver museum and fish hotel.
My younger brother and I used to dive off of Destin. For those who do not know about the Mississippi River and its effect on the Gulf, Destin is the first port East of the mouth of the Mississippi River which is clear enough to see underwater. The effects of the Mississippi River dumping tons of silt into the delta are felt until Destin. I had an older cousin who lived in Fort Walton Beach who almost lived diving in the Gulf! ;-)
Now my nephews are diving off of Destin.
It is sad to see the S.S. United States becoming an atificial reef but it was simply rotting to nothing in Philadelphia so that I suppose that it is a good thing.
At least we will know where it’s at, unlike teh SS Constitution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Constitution
“SS Constitution was retired in 1995; while under tow to be scrapped, the liner sank 700 nautical miles (1,300 km) north of the Hawaiian Islands on November 17, 1997. The exact location of the wreck has yet to be discovered.”
What are officials going to do with the fuel and oil and other waste products that will be ejected from the vessel????????? Send it to Cuba or Norfolk?
“My dad has an ashtray/jewelry dish from when he sailed on it as a teenager.”
Uh-Oh! Piracy on the high seas! ;-)
They can be disposed of in a environmentally safe manner, even recycling them............
If walls could talk.
Article says it’s on the way to Norfolk, where it will be cleaned up for use as an artificial reef.
S.S. United States
So I take it it can’t still sail under its own power.
Dragging it down the east coast, around the Florida peninsula and up to you will be a major project all on its own.
Yeah, he’s been hiding out ever since LOL
At least it will be a useful thing, whereas the others of that era are lost or were scrapped.............
Yeah, my dad had quite a few ‘encounters’ on it as a teenager meeting other young ladies.
It apparently is, to Florida. They’ve had a very big program in creating artificial reefs like this.
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