{"id":888380,"date":"2026-10-20T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888380\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T02:54:10","slug":"ocean-liner-united-states-scheduled-for-reef-deployment-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/888380\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean liner United States scheduled for reef deployment in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The liner has been in Mobile, Alabama, since March 2025, where she has undergone remediation and preparation for reefing.<\/p>\n<p>The county said all required environmental remediation has been completed under Environmental Protection Agency and Maritime Administration best management practices for vessels intended as artificial reefs.<\/p>\n<p>The county&#8217;s plans rule out explosives. Openings will be cut strategically through the hull so that the vessel settles upright at a proposed seabed depth of 180 feet (54.9 metres), leaving about 55 feet (17 metres) of water above the upper deck.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the aluminium superstructure is being removed to improve diver access at that depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The liner has been in Mobile, Alabama, since March 2025, where she has undergone remediation and preparation for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2808,473,3,4265,21,372555,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-888380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-florida","tag-history","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-vessel","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}