US Navy (USN) Captain (CAPT) Larry Jones, USN Inactive Ship Program Manager, talks to reporters about the decommissioned Aircraft Carrier USS ORISKANY (CVA 34), during preparations to sink the vessel, conducted at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Florida (FL). The ORISKANY is scheduled to be scuttled 22 miles south of Florida in approximately 212 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico where it will become the largest ship ever intentionally sunk as an artificial reef. After the ORISKANY reaches the bottom, ownership of the vessel will transfer from the Navy to the State of Florida
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Base: Naval Air Station, Pensacola
State: Florida (FL)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: JO1 Jackey Bratt, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
18/04/2006
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The U.S. National Archives
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