Great story. Thank you.

Thank you for your service!!!!! And I’m glad your here!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻😇✌️👍🦋

Thanks for serving your new country. We are glad you are here!

This ship brought my grandmother the Ellis Island

I literally came here to comment the exact same thing. I still fall asleep to forensic files every night. His voice is the most soothing voice I've ever heard.

This guy's voice is so friggin creepy, I can't watch this documentary.....

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that sounds eerily like grandparents...

My Grandfather was on that ship

@@jjump122 was my dad's ship WW II

My grandfather served on the USS Harry Taylor as well. Clark "Pinky" Curry was a member of the ship's band and helped to transport many soldiers during WWII.

What time frame of the 30 minute documentary are you shown?

At 13:15 ?

9-11 ;)

@@cyberp0et I know right? Did you know it was actually Walt Disney that sank this, using submarines energized by aliens using gluten as a medium via red baseball hats?

Paperwork; multiple fees processes, multiple approval request (yes hard copy and soft), multiple plans submitted, responses to multiple government (local, state and federal) inquiries, required testing and retesting on sinking models, software simulations, required multiple site visits during the process(at the ship, the sinking site), radar scanning and soil testing at/from the sinking site multiple times during different seasons and time of day/month. Labor to prep for sinking; removing cable, wire, lead based paint, asbestos wrapped pipes, non support walls, infrastructure, fuel, oil and other petroleum by-products, machinery, corrosive materials deemed not habitat friendly. Fees; various transportation, hauling, storage, explosives, towing, site prep, multiple insurance coverage for different stages of the process including prior, during and after the sinking. That about covers it, salaried/hourly compensation not covered.

I think they are the same narrator

This isnt the point though :D read the desciption of the video : In her last mission as an artificial reef, this massive ship is already attracting a variety of fish and other marine life. Now, natural resources managers are trying to determine what impact this artificial reef has on fish populations and the health of the surrounding natural reefs.

Pretty sure that would cost several hundred thousand annually to do that. Based on current floating museums (battleships, submarines, etc.), annual cost. The curator of the battleship New Jersey has a KZfaq channel and wow! Very labor intensive($) to keep her afloat as a museum. I don’t think she would get the same number of visits as that ship so she would run into a deficit pretty quick.

@@JohnSmith-gb5vg but that supports my point. They aren't sinking it so people can explore it, they are sinking it because it's too costly to maintain. Besides, being underwater severely limits how many people CAN explore it now. If it's because of cost or to create reef, they should say so, and don't make up bogus excuses like it's for exploration.

How TF is someone going to explore it underwater if it isn't underwater? "New York is great but if it was Topeka it would be cheaper, and the history would be easier for me to understand. I mean for real why didn't they just make it Topeka, and then there also wouldn't have been so much crime. WTF, some people are so stupid."

I used to be a diver. It sits in 165 feet of water. That is not for the average diver. I did not say or mean to say you sunk it. You better learn to read and comprehend what you reading as well know what you are talking about

indeed, I was wondering myself.... It must have fallen down....

mrpagrant they both have fallen on to the deck

Could always watch it happen here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ocxzhKZqs9HOZI0.html

The ship is cleaned of toxic materials before sinking, a process which ususally costs more than simply scrapping it. Lots of laws and regs have to be followed.

Please define "POLLUTING" Leanne. While doing so, can you ensure that you don't also meet your own definition of polluting? Respectfully Signed, Every Person You Have Polluted With Your Very Existence.

You are right to point that out. It is a good idea to do it cleanly if you do it on purpose, especially near a reef system. But people still dump lots of trash into the oceans while they are toothbrushing an artificial reef.

Understand your point but most if not all (pacific losses excluded) were sunk too deep to be reefs and, yes they are polluting the seabed, which, not much can be done about removing the oil from the leaking fuel tanks due to the depth. As for the Nuclear testing, the saltwater actually contains and dilutes the radiation. Studies at the Trinity site(can only dive for so long) reveal substantial reduction in radiation levels and sea life is flourishing (yes they capture and test for radiation effects).

Next time we are being attacked we should board their ships to clean them before we sink them, I agree. Where were smart people like you during WWII? Gosh it's so simple.

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Well most steel in general comes from China Origin wise

I mean he did. Or else God would have stopped them. Why can’t man be instruments in God’s hands? It’s like saying, if God wanted music he would have created it

The reason we are sinking ships to make artificial reefs is because most natural reefs are dying so why not make new ones while the natural reefs have a chance to heal

Well God created man, so its basically the same thing.

@donna Adam’s seriously your ignorance or stupidity surprises me

We out-expensed our cost for scrapping these type of ships, in the US. It would have cost millions more to scrap it here in the US if you could find a salvage yard that had the space, people and time to handle that. Sending it to a foreign scrap yard (normal process), they would not sell the recovered metals back to us.