Salvage Team Hired to Fix Botched Scuttling
FLORIDA
The Key Largo Chamber of Commerce hired a marine salvage company to finish scuttling a Navy ship that sank accidentally hours before crews planned to send it to the bottom of the sea to create an artificial reef.
The 510-foot vessel is resting upside down in about 130 feet of water, its bow sticking out of the sea six miles offshore.
The cost of the salvage work was not released. The project already has cost more than $1 million.
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