"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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http://www.irishmansoftware.com/Oriskany.htm


Notice the boat on deck does not get sucked under.


This was apparently the first test for the Navy in their long term reef
building plan with sinking old and obsolete ships.

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"The Navy rescued the ship from the salvage yard after a contract to turn it
into scrap metal fell through. The sinking made the Oriskany its first ship
to be used in a pilot program to reef old warships."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/17/car....ap/index.html
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Other civilian owned ships have been sunk in the past for the same purpose
and with impressive results for the habitat.

http://www.fla-keys.com/spiegelgrove/

http://www.ncfisheries.net/kids/sinking.htm