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Retired Warship Becomes Reef

CoralReefThe USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg now rests at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. This retired U.S. Navy warship was intentionally sunk on Wednesday in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. It will become the world’s second-largest artificial coral reef.

The ship sank in less than 2 minutes. The goal of this project is “to divert fishing and diving pressure away from natural reefs.” Built in 1943, the Vandenberg is 522 feet long and weighed 17,250 tons.

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Comments about “Retired Warship Becomes Reef”

  1. Spacescout says:
    June 16, 2009 at 11:37 am

    JonhneyT
    ,no it doesn’t because lasers don’t shoot underwater. :-? :cool: ;-( :mrgreen:

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  2. Anonymous says:
    June 8, 2009 at 8:37 am

    they aren’t worried they killed some animals by crushing them or their food suply

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  3. JohneyT says:
    June 5, 2009 at 11:40 am

    Does the reef have a defence System?:)

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  4. bob says:
    June 4, 2009 at 9:49 pm

    cool but bad for fish

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  5. bobz says:
    June 4, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    cool reef

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  6. cbutt says:
    June 4, 2009 at 11:06 am

    what happed to make the boat a reef?

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