The county agreed in October to buy the SS United States for $1 million, part of a $10.1 million budget appropriation that will turn the vessel into an artificial reef, the Northwest Florida Daily ...

The SS United States is a mid-20th century ocean liner ... serving as an artificial reef that attracts divers and marine life in the waters off Florida. Sponsor Message It's an intricate job ...

In her heyday in the 1950s, the superliner SS United States broke all records by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in three and a half days. Looking rusty and every bit of 75 years old, the former ...

where it will be cleaned and renovated for a second life as the world’s largest artificial reef off Florida’s Gulf Coast. Here's the latest on the SS United States' journey south.

Sailing from Delaware Bay, the SS United States is completing its final journey to sink off Florida's Gulf Coast to become "the world's largest artificial reef." "Once deployed off Destin-Fort ...

America’s flagship — the magnificent SS United States — was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial ...

If the SS United States is sunk, it would, at 990 feet long, become the world’s largest artificial reef, surpassing the USS Oriskany, a former naval ship previously sunk in the Gulf. S.S. United ...

Four tugboats are moving the SS United States to Mobile, Alabama. It'll take about a year to remove all contaminants before it can become a reef off Okaloosa County. The SS United States hit 44 ...

But preventing the SS United States from becoming a reef would only send it to the scrapyard, Fogg said. Also, the county's $10.1 million plan to purchase, move, clean and sink the ship includes $ ...

Officials in Florida’s Okaloosa County hope to do just that: send the SS United States to the bottom of the Gulf to create the world’s largest artificial reef — a diving attraction that ...