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Posted on 07/04/2026 9:07:51 AM PDT by Ezekiel
OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. -- Okaloosa County is reapplying for permits required to sink the SS United States.
The county said they are reapplying for the permitting area where the SS United States will be deployed. This results in the original permit being modified.
The historic ocean liner is set to become the world's largest artificial reef. The only thing standing in the way now is final approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"There's people that want to come from all over Europe, Australia, Asia all different locations wanting to hit it," says Mason Ousley, the manager at Dive Pros.
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The ocean liner remains docked at port in Mobile. There is currently no sinking date set.
Okaloosa County is in the process of reapplying for permits with the Army Corps of Engineers.
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Expired permits ping.
(Gee, that’s a shame.)
The historic ocean liner is set to become the world’s largest artificial reef.
There are people that want to come from all different locations wanting to hit it.
There could come to be quite a collection of boats on the bottom.
What a waste of good steel.
I can understand the good it will do as an underwater reef, but it still seems a shame that it possibly could have been restored and this goes back many years when it was just sitting at a dock in Philadelphia.
Hah, when I saw that line I thought of Laz.
It IS, but recycled steel isn’t a money-maker.
Florida’s gain in tourism will be a far greater bonus.
(Once the Army Corps of Engineers gets around to it—notoriously slow in other matters...)
I sailed to England on the S.S United States in 1959.
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