This Ocean Liner Was the World’s Fastest. It’s Being Sunk to Make the Largest Artificial Reef – WTOP News
The $13.5 million reefing project will make the 990-foot liner a diving and fishing attraction and create habitat for tuna, marlin and swordfish.
- On November 12, weather permitting, authorities in Okaloosa County, Florida, plan to sink the SS United States in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.
- Following a 12-day journey in March to the Port of Mobile, Alabama, crews spent months stripping hazardous chemicals and cutting holes throughout the vessel to prepare it for deployment.
- A regional funding partnership secured the site: Pensacola tourism officials contributed $1.5 million, while Coastal Conservation Association Florida added $500,000, marking the largest single donation in the organization's 40-year history.
- Local officials expect the marine destination to generate millions of dollars annually in tourism revenue while providing critical new marine habitats for the diving and fishing communities.
- The SS United States Conservancy plans a museum featuring the ship's iconic funnels and artifacts like the tourist class smoking lounge bar, preserving a vessel once called the "space shuttle of her age.
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This ocean liner is longer than the Titanic and was once the fastest on the seas. Here’s why they’re sinking it.
An ocean liner that is longer than the Titanic and was once the fastest on the seas is headed to a final home on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico as the world’s largest artificial reef.
This ocean liner was the world’s fastest. It’s being sunk to make the largest artificial reef – WTOP News
DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — An ocean liner that is longer than the Titanic and was once the fastest on the seas is headed to a final home on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico as the world’s largest artificial reef. The S.S. United States is scheduled to be sunk Wednesday off the coast of...
The Toronto Star
This ocean liner was the world’s fastest. It’s being sunk to make the largest artificial reef
DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — An ocean liner that is longer than the Titanic and was once the fastest on the seas is headed to a final home on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico as the world's largest artificial…
The Daily Advance
This ocean liner was the world's fastest. It's being sunk to make the largest artificial reef
An ocean liner that once was the fastest on the seas is headed to its final home on the floor of the Gulf Mexico as the world’s largest artificial reef. Officials on Florida’s panhandle coast plan to scuttle the S.S.…
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