Sinking

May 31st, 2006

The Oriskany, a decommissioned aircraft carrier, was sunk earlier this month off the coast of Florida to form an artificial reef. The pictures of the event are tremendously impressive. (As a point of reference, at 888 feet the Oriskany is 6 feet longer than the RMS Titanic.)

[Via Needcoffee.com]

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One Response to “Sinking”

  1. Gary Farber Says:
    June 1st, 2006 at 5:01 am

    It was on all the news shows here when it happened.

    Part of the notion, along with being good for the local underwater environment in forming reefs for local undersea life, is that divers will come and be tourists.

    John McCain flew off the Big O during the Vietnam War, incidentally. But it was always one of the smaller aircraft carriers.

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