USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg To Be Sunk For a Reef

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 25, 2009 @09:48PM from the give-reefs-a-chance dept.

caffiend666 writes "On Wednesday the USNS Hoyt S. Vandenberg is to be sunk in 140 feet of water off of Key West to become the world's second largest artificial reef. (The largest was created by sinking the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany off of Pensacola, Florida, in 2006.) The Vandenberg was built in 1943 (chronology) and commissioned the USS Gen. Harry Taylor. In 1963 the Air Force took it over and recommissioned it, naming it after the Air Force general. For decades the ship served as a missile tracker and space relay. It was used in NASA's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo projects and the Shuttle program. The Vandenberg was the set for some of the scenes in the '90s movie Virus as the Russian MIR relay station. Soon it will become one of the world's most awesome diving spots."

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Re:Because that ship looked so cool by Weezul · 2009-05-25 23:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It looks quite well used by now :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vandenberg.jpg

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Re:17000 tons of steel gone to waste by Viol8 · 2009-05-26 02:53 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"So why didn't you buy it and recycle it?"
What kind of stupid response is that? Go back under your bridge idiot troll.