USS Oriskany CV-34 Sunk For Reef Creation
Today, being a holiday, it will be a fairly abbreviated blog post, but there is one thing that happened a few weeks ago that might be of particular interest…especially to fishermen who occasionally like to do some off-shore fishing down in the Gulf of Mexico. Here’s an example of the Navy putting its old ships to good use. Read more about the interesting story of the sinking of the USS Oriskany here and here. But what I mostly wanted to call your attention to are the spectacular pictures of watching a big naval ship sink that are located on the link below:
Isn’t it nice to know these big ships continue to serve a good purpose long after being decommissioned by the U.S. Navy…rather than becoming some Naval shipyard eyesore? To the personnel who served on this once fine ship…on this memorial day it must be sad to see so much history laid to a final rest, yet it must be encouraging to know this ship has many more years of function left in her, albeit in a totally different capacity.
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