A sad day in Florida

It is interesting that the little boat on the flight deck floated free.
I thought that the myth was that everything would be sucked down with the ship.
Is this the end of a hollywood myth? Perhaps those that have sailed in the Grey funnel line would let me know.
 
Well thats a very good use for the scrap. Even at 20 million dollars, it was pretty cost effective as a disposal.
It will become a lefe haven for many species, and lets hope that others will follow.
 
So theres me putting my tin cans out for re-cycling every Thursday and the yanks go and dump several life-times worth at the bottom of the sea in one afternoon.
 
Great pix, but I can't help a slight feeling of bamboozlement here.

Alternative press report:

US pollution outcry
The US navy today dumped 50.000 tons of scrap metal in the oceans causing a major pollution alert. Reports claim the metal will remain on the bottom for hundreds of years and that the ecology of the area has been irreparably altered. Protest groups are threatening to take the navy to court and hope to get injunctions forcing it to recover the vessel, a former warship known to have contained tons of fuel oil, nuclear missiles and heavy metals, and have it disposed off properly with the valuable metals recycled in an environmentally sound way...

Oh! Its called an artificial reef - that's OK then.
 
They should have sent the Captain down with his grey ship, because they thought it was green.
 
a rather similar position to that esso oil rig that Greenpeace made all the fuss about. It turned out it was more environmentally damaging to scrap it than sink it. Own goal to Greenpeace. Maybe the USA have learnt something from that fiasco?
 
It wasn't any ordinary mobo - plainly a hybrid boat/plane/car funded by the BBC from our license fees so that Jeremy Clarkson and tit around. He can't have been in it at the tim eof filming 'cos it didn't sink. Look out for Top (Gun) Gear 2007!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Having done a few dives on smaller artificial reefs, that's going to be one hell of a dive in a few years time once it gets well colonised. Not sure about environmental impact though. It really depends on what's down there to start with. At 24 miles out, I'd guess it won't affect any currents. A ship dropped on a barren sandy bottom will soon attract a huge amout of wild life both animal and plant. If it's been sunk as a reef, then any nasties like oil would have to have been removed. Also the ship would have to either have been sealed up or opened completely otherwise divers will get inside. They have a tendancy to do that to wrecks.

Simply sinking a pile of scrap to get rid of it is rather different to setting up an artificial reef.
 
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Protest groups are threatening to take the navy to court and hope to get injunctions forcing it to recover the vessel, a former warship known to have contained tons of fuel oil, nuclear missiles and heavy metals, and have it disposed off properly with the valuable metals recycled in an environmentally sound way... [unquote]

James, it seems reasonable to assume that that is what they have just spent 20 million bucks doing?
 
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