On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:10:40 -0700, Walt Morgan wrote:

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:09:51 +0100, Rob van Riel
wrote:

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 04:09:45 +0000, D wrote:
Scuttling at sea is now cheaper than scrapping due to the environmental
costs.

Isn't that just a bit hypocrytical? Simply dumping waste is obviously
cheaper than disposing of it in an environmentally friendly way. But isn't
that what the government is doing in this case?

Rob

Not really. After thest tests the ship will be sunk as an artificial
reef for fish and other sea life. IT has been quiet common to do this
with old aircraft, the A-6 being an example, in the last decade or so.

OK, I'm quite willing to take your word for that, but then I must ask,
where is the environmental cost of scrapping them? I mean, if you leave
them at the bottom long enough, whatever comes out of the ships during
scrapping would also come out during decay. What am I missing?



America was my last ship and I'd sure rather see her go this way that
under a cutting torch .


I agree. It might be more logical to recycle the lot of them, but this has
to do with human emotion, and logic has no business in that arena.

Rob