[muir_redwoods]

How tough would it have been to auction it off to the highest bidder and give the money to the VA or the Fallen Heroes Fund?

[SamAdams76]

Those aircraft carriers are very large. It will take quite a bit of time and resources to salvage it. They are also almost unsinkable. Even if you wanted to sink one on purpose, you would have to work very hard at it and in the end, you might still not be successful.

[Steely Tom]

It's perhaps best known for a 1967 incident in which stray voltage triggered an accidental explosion that struck a plane on the flight deck whose cockpit was occupied by a young John McCain. A chain reaction of blasts and fires ultimately killed 134 men and injured more than 300.

I love that.

Ya want Juan to take your calls, that's what you've got to say.

"Stray voltage."

I must have cut class they day they taught that subject.

[Kirkwood]

Turn it into a casino.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think it would have served better as another artificial reef. This is a use that actually pays dividends, not just to commercial businesses, but to the US Navy.

To start with, once a ship is scuttled, it becomes not just an attraction for divers, whose culture lends itself to working as US Navy divers, but it acts as a gigantic nursery to sea life, especially fish. In turn this supports the smaller, commercial fishing industry that provides many able seamen to the Navy.

The profusion of life also supports higher level predators including marine mammals, who are always a big attraction to an area.

[bigbob]

Did it still float? Then it could have become a perfect “Illegal Alien Repatriation Vehicle”.

Even if it didn’t.

[GATOR NAVY]

It's perhaps best known for a 1967 incident in which stray voltage triggered an accidental explosion that struck a plane on the flight deck whose cockpit was occupied by a young John McCain. A chain reaction of blasts and fires ultimately killed 134 men and injured more than 300.

I wonder how many times I saw "Trial by Fire" in my Naval career?

[Ann Archy]

Isn’t this the ship where McCain almost burned the thing down with one of his stupid moves?? And MANY sailors were killed because of it.

[bmwcyle]

I have $10.00 to send John McCain with it.