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• GolfPopper
  "Oh, better that her shattered hulkShould sink beneath the wave;Her thunders shook the mighty deep,And there should be her grave;Nail to the mast her holy flag,Set every threadbare sail,And give her to the god of storms,The lightning and the gale!"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Ironsides_(poem)
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  tylergetsay
  Incase anyone was unaware part of the consideration for where to sink it is access for divers -- the top will be around 55ft deep which will make it accessible for recreational divers
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  WalterBright
  It's a sad day. I crossed the Atlantic in it long ago. Some great memories.
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  geokon
  Was strangely difficult to find on Wikipedia what the "SS" actually meanshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_steamerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix
• jparishy
  Only love from all the Philadelphians who have sat eating Swedish meatballs and looking at it in wonder. Will be dearly missed
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  kragen
  If this is interesting to you, there's still one ocean liner left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary_2Buy a ticket while you can.
• williadc
  This podcast entry has more about the ship's history https://www.omnibusproject.com/episodes/ss-united-states-ent...
• _heimdall
  Most of the comments here mention divers, I would have expected thus to be focused on fishing. When I lived on the gulf coasts there were quite a few sunken ships marked as common fishing spots.
• ropable
  A bittersweet end. The SS United States was a magnificent-looking ship.
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  xrd
  Th SS United States going into the Gulf of Mexico.It would be funny if Mexico started calling it "el arrecife del imperio moribundo""The Reef of a Dying Empire"
• Gee101
  I'm sure a Youtuber could have saved it :)
• hackernud3s
  Headed for Davey Jones' Locker.
• asanineassasin
  Would a metall ship, that is artificially erroded a a solar driven scarficial annode, count as geo-engineering, when the resulting algea bloom fell out over a dead spot of the ocean?
• samudrijan
  Ain’t that symbolic.
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  mig39
  Hasn't this been the plan for years now?
• ungreased0675
  Beautiful ship, that’s going to be awesome to dive on.
• dmead
  Ikea in south philly will never be the same :<
• thrance
  Feels relevant:> The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed. A Floating Fortress, for example, has locked up in it the labour that would build several hundred cargo-ships. Ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never having brought any material benefit to anybody, and with further enormous labours another Floating Fortress is built.From George Orwell's 1984.
• analog8374
  Well that's symbolic as heck. A component in a piece of ritual magic maybe. Somebody should feature it that way in a comic book.
• iJohnDoe
  Other than it changing hands a couple of times and it languishing for decades, both of which are pretty normal, the cleanup of the ship sounds largely successful. Almost like an example of how all cleanup projects should go.
• verytrivial
  Honestly read this as satirical after my brain inserted "intelligence" after reef. It certainly feels like that.
• hparadiz
  I've had a lot of chick-fil-a sitting in my car looking at this thing.
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• rspoerri
  i read "United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef" and thought, thats no news... /s
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  verdverm
  > The SS United States, once the fastest passenger liner in the world, is scheduled to be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico in November, creating what will be the world’s largest artificial reef.This sentence may anger someone into causing a controversy... hope this doesn't hit his favorite channels.
• phgn
  They should sink the US as artificial reef.