Aircraft carrier to be underwater Everest

[DesertFox]

USING strategically placed explosives and a lot of water, the US Navy is to perform a feat that its Cold War enemies longed to achieve: sending the 32,000-tonne USS Oriskany to sleep with the fishes.

The decommissioned aircraft carrier will be towed 40km off the coast of Florida tomorrow, scuttled and sunk 65m to the ocean floor to create the world's largest artificial reef.

More (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19136480-2703,00.html)

[Conserv_Atticus]

I hope they film this... this would be one spectical i would love to see!

[Incident_command]

I'm sure there will be plenty of video.

[DeclinetoState]

But whom would you like to see on it as it goes down?

[Incident_command]

Even a carrier doesn't have enough room for that list.

[UnkHiram]

If they really wanted to make the world's largest artificial reef they would get Senator Kennedy to go down with it.

[Rhino]

They couldn't withstand the tidal wave.

To be fair though, he has lost a lot of weight.

[DesertFox]

STD's do that to ya.