Watch a ship go down

[Photon440]

Today only, get your front row seats. An old destroyer is being sunk to form an artificial reef:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...-sunk-today-to-make-artificial-reef-1.3021329

The video link:
http://www.meridix.com/mbp/event/in...rdid=71718&event_position=&event_type=general

...later...
Okay, nothing to see here. A big cloud of smoke and it's down. Video link is over.

Here's the sinking on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtfYhmsUi2s

 

[rscurtis]

Waste of good steel that could be recycled into something else. Fish have survived for millions of years before we started "helping" them.

 

[Photon440]

About 25 ships of that size are lost every year at sea...at least the steel in this one is in a known, accessible place for divers to have fun in. Not just for the fish. It wasn't a waste for the Canadian Navy, they sold it. It wasn't a waste for the group that bought it, it's doing it's intended purpose now.

 

[patrick66]

Plus everything recoverable and recycleable, plus all hazardous materials, are removed and re-purposed. Ships make for fantastic artificial reefs! So, it's really not a waste.

See the USS Oriskany being sunk off Pensacola, FL for the same purpose. Sad to see, true; but at least the steel is not going to China:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-Rg5Mb2VlYI