{"id":895988,"date":"2026-10-27T04:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895988\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T04:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:24:09","slug":"ss-united-states-set-to-be-sunk-nov-12-off-destin-fort-walton-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/895988\/","title":{"rendered":"SS United States set to be sunk Nov. 12 off Destin-Fort Walton Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10tv.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WALA<\/a>) &#8211; Okaloosa County plans to sink a record-setting ocean liner off Destin-Fort Walton Beach, turning the SS United States into the world\u2019s largest artificial reef.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The 990-foot ship will be deployed Thursday, Nov. 12, weather permitting, in the Gulf about 22 nautical miles southwest of Destin-Fort Walton Beach. Deployment operations are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say the ship will be towed from Mobile to the Gulf in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Okaloosa County will host a public sendoff ceremony celebrating the ship\u2019s history on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 1:30 p.m. at the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Convention Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A live viewing party will be held at AJ\u2019s Seafood and Oyster Bar in Destin beginning at 9 a.m. on Nov. 12, with a live feed from the deployment site shown on the outdoor screen. The viewing link will be shared on thessus.com before deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WALA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WALA) &#8211; Okaloosa County plans to sink a record-setting ocean liner off Destin-Fort Walton Beach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-895988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","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\/895988","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=895988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}