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Famed ship heads for afterlife as artificial reef in deliberate sinking off Florida
By Steve Gorman Nov 11 (Reuters) - Famed ocean liner SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America and the world's fastest, headed for the sea floor near Florida on Wednesday in a deliberate sinking designed to transform the vessel into the world's biggest artificial reef. The finale to a year-long process preparing the ship to meet its destiny, 75 years after it was first launched at sea, was presented in a livestream showing aerial views of the once-grand vessel's rusted hulk, stripped of its two smokestacks, afloat but quietly, slowly settling into calm waters of…
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- Yahoo NewsFamed ship heads for afterlife as artificial reef in deliberate sinking off FloridaBy Steve Gorman Nov 11 (Reuters) - Famed ocean liner SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America and the world's fastest, headed for the sea floor near Florida on Wednesday in a deliberate sinking designed to transform the vessel into the world's biggest artificial reef. The finale to a year-long process preparing the ship to meet its destiny, 75 years after it was first launched at sea, was presented in a livestream showing aerial views of the once-grand vessel's rusted hulk, stripped of its two smokestacks, afloat but quietly, slowly settling into calm waters of…
- BBCFamed ship SS United States to be sunk off coast of FloridaActivists unsuccessfully fought for the historic liner to be preserved and turned into a museum, but it will now become the world's largest artificial ocean reef.