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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.

[logitech]

What a waste of a perfectly good fishing reef.

The commies can’t do anything right.

[hinckley buzzard]

My brother was a charter crew member (Plank owner) of the USS Guam, LPH-9, an LPH which is now known as a littoral assault vehicle. The Guam had its moment of fame in recovering one of the early space capsules upon re-entry. It is now a reef in the Atlantic. The Forrestal should have been given a similar quiet and dignified fate.