Onboard the decommissioned US Navy (USN) Intrepid Class Aircraft Carrier USS ORISKANY (CV 34), Mr. Stuart Saches, Explosives Coordinator from Aberdeen Test Center, makes his way down the ladder well to measure and confirm where explosives will be placed as the Carrier undergoes final preparations for its scheduled sinking, while moored to the pier at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Florida (FL). The ORISKANY will be towed 22-miles south of Pensacola in approximately 212-ft. of water where it will become the largest ship ever intentionally sunk as an artificial reef. After ORISKANY reaches the bottom, ownership of the vessel will transfer from the USN to the State of Florida
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The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: USS Oriskany (CVA 34)
Scene Camera Operator: JO1(Sw) Jackey Bratt, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
19/04/2006
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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