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2011-07-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Matt 2011-07-23 13:17|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 cool pics

Posted by Frank G 2011-07-23 13:35|| 2011-07-23 13:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder why the photographer thinks these ships are a 'great risk to the marine environment?' Sink them offshore and they will become home for thousands of happy fish.

Maybe people just say that to sound weepy/lefty or something.

Posted by Free Radical 2011-07-23 15:45|| 2011-07-23 15:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Free Radical -

Many of these ships were never properly prepared for decommissioning, and most of them are packed with asbestos. An accidental sinking - and as the USN's budgets have tightened, less and less money has gone for care and maintenance on the mothball fleet, so it's not out of the question - would be an environmental mess of the first order.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-07-23 16:53|| 2011-07-23 16:53|| Front Page Top

#4 ..Almost forgot - don't count on Iowa ever becoming a museum. No matter who comes up with what kind of plan, it'll be nixed and she will probably end up sink-ex'd. Too many embarrassments associated with that brave ship.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-07-23 16:55|| 2011-07-23 16:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Meh- OK... I would assume that petroleum and oils have been pumped out, but I guess there is a lot of PCBs in the older ships as part of the wiring.

They ended up doing a good job with the Oriskany reefing project in FL, so I hope they can do something constructive with some of these.

Posted by Free Radical 2011-07-23 17:16|| 2011-07-23 17:16|| Front Page Top

#6 packed with asbestos

Asbestos is generally only a health issue when it is inhaled as fine dust - its dust is very pointy and causes fine cuts and irritations to lung tissue, with scarring (and cancer, though I don't know why - Dr. Steve?) Sinking it in mud would seem a reasonable disposal solution, whether still in a ship or not.

Posted by Glenmore 2011-07-23 19:49|| 2011-07-23 19:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Mike, I hope you're wrong about the Iowa. I really do. At the least I bet someone IN Iowa would be able to take it in along the Mississippi River.

Posted by Charles 2011-07-23 19:58|| 2011-07-23 19:58|| Front Page Top

#8 That the US produced so many Tanks, Planes, + Ships, etc. during WW2 was a big part of how the war-damaged nations of Europe + Asia, Allied or Axis, were able to maintain post-war stability + econ recover.

Posted by Glusort Hitler1574 2011-07-23 23:55|| 2011-07-23 23:55|| Front Page Top

#9 OOPS, sorry, the above post is mine - looks like SKYNET-MATRIX was too slow today to properly change the name.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-23 23:56|| 2011-07-23 23:56|| Front Page Top

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