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Retired ocean liner to be sunk as artificial reef off Destin

Original: A 45,400-ton ocean liner stripped of both funnels has spent 19 months tied up in Mobile, Alabama, and tugboats will tow her out so a Florida county can sink her 22 nautical miles off Destin in November, about 12 miles from an aircraft carrier already sunk as a r

A decommissioned 45,400-ton ocean liner, stripped of both funnels, has spent 19 months docked in Mobile, Alabama. In November, tugboats will tow her to a site about 22 nautical miles off Destin, Florida, where a county plan will sink her as an artificial reef, roughly 12 miles from a previously sunk aircraft carrier used for the same purpose.

Why now: The unusual fate of a large historic ocean liner being deliberately sunk as a reef is drawing attention ahead of the November sinking.

Mobile, AlabamaDestin, FloridaOkaloosa County, Florida

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• A 45,400-ton ocean liner stripped of both funnels has spent 19 months tied up in Mobile, Alabama, and tugboats will tow her out so a Florida county can sink her 22 nautical miles off Destin in November, about 12 miles from an aircraft carrier already sunk as a r · Autonocion.com

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