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This is never an easy thing to watch - especially if its your ship that's being made into an artificial reef:
Aircraft Carrier Sunk in Gulf of MexicoIN THE GULF OF MEXICO - As hundreds of veterans looked on solemnly, the Navy blew holes in a retired aircraft carrier and sent the 888-foot USS Oriskany to the bottom of the sea Wednesday, creating the world's largest manmade reef.
The rusted hulk took 37 minutes to slip beneath the waves, about 4 1/2 hours faster than predicted, after more than 500 pounds of plastic explosives went off with bright flashes of light and clouds of brown and gray smoke.
Korean and Vietnam War veterans aboard a flotilla of 300 charter boats watched from beyond a one-mile safety perimeter as the "Mighty O" went down in 212 feet of water, about 24 miles off Pensacola Beach.
Lloyd Quiter of North Collins, N.Y., who served four tours on the ship in Vietnam, played the attention-all-hands signal on his boatswain's pipe, and wept.
"I'm a little stunned. It's a little hard to take," he said.
After the blasts, an acrid smell hung in the air near the ship. The carrier went down stern first, the bow lifting up into the air and creating a giant spray of water as it came down. The blue ocean churned a foamy white as the deck — bright orange with rust — slid under. Hundreds of surrounding boats blew their horns in tribute.
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Mike H. said:
My ship was on escort duty with the 'Big O' in 65 or 66. USS Dennis J. Buckley DD-808. Sad to see
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Mad Mikey said:
I remember a couple of occasions where my Dad's old ship, the Midway, nearly became an off-sho
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Alan Kellogg said:
I remember a couple of occasions where my Dad's old ship, the Midway, nearly became an off-shore
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I remember a couple of occasions where my Dad's old ship, the Midway, nearly became an off-shore island.
I wonder how long it'll be before the Oriskany has rusted away.
|| Posted by Alan Kellogg, May 18, 2006 08:24 PM ||I remember a couple of occasions where my Dad's old ship, the Midway, nearly became an off-shore island.
Luckily, the Midway is now here in San Diego and serving as a floating museum.....here's the site:
http://www.midway.org/
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, May 19, 2006 10:04 AM ||My ship was on escort duty with the 'Big O' in 65 or 66. USS Dennis J. Buckley DD-808. Sad to see it go.
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