The US Navy Sank Aircraft Carrier USS Oriskany With 250 Pounds of C4 in 2006. She Sits Upright Off Pensacola With Her Flight Deck 145 Feet Down, and Divers Swim on It.
On 17 May 2006, Navy divers detonated roughly 250 pounds of C4 placed throughout USS Oriskany and sank her off the coast of Pensacola, Florida — the first American warship deliberately sunk to become an artificial reef. She came to rest upright, her flight deck 145 feet below the surface. Divers now call her the Great Carrier Reef.
By: 19fortyfive.com
