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rnf@sp*.tb*.co* wrote:-
> Subject:        Battleships as Artificial Reefs
> The US Navy announced a few days ago that it is retiring the 4 remaining
> battleships in the inventory, the Iowa, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Missouri.
> ... the Navy intends to scrap them because of the expense of maintaining
> them ... I think one of these ships would make a great artificial reef. It
> would make a fantastic dive site. ... cut up to make razor blades ...

In the interest of conserving the world's fuel and metal ore supplies, PLEASE
NO!! It takes much less fuel to melt and re-cast old metal than to make new
metal from ore. The world's metal ore mines won't last for ever, and I have
read that we are starting to smell the end of supply of some metals (copper,
nickel). Will the wrecks at least be first picked clean of non-ferrous metals
that could be used again? Recycling is all, if the modern technical society
(INCLUDING scuba diving for the masses) is to continue any good length of
time. Anyway, old ship metal is made into not just razor blades but lots of
sorts of useful things. If a ship had to go, I would rather wear a bit of it
on my back after it had been melted and usefully re-cast into an aqualung
cylinder, than see it slowly dissolving to waste in seawater.

P.S. to scuba-l: (a) Sorry about the cross-post, but I felt that the point had
to be put; (b) Please how to subscribe to scuba-l? and about how many messages
does scuba-l send out per day?

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