Famed ocean liner sunk to become world’s biggest artificial reef

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The SS United States, once the largest passenger ship built in the United States and the world’s fastest ocean liner, was deliberately sunk off Florida to create an artificial reef. The sinking followed a year of preparations to convert the historic vessel into an underwater attraction and habitat.

Famed ocean liner ⁠SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America and the world’s fastest, headed for the sea floor near Florida on Wednesday in a deliberate sinking designed to transform the vessel into the world’s biggest artificial reef. The finale to a year-long process preparing the ship to meet its destiny, 75 years after it was first launched at sea, was presented in a live stream showing aerial ‌views of the once-grand vessel’s rusted hulk, stripped of its two...