Re: [MV] MV destruction - USS AMERICA

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Apr 12 2005 - 13:00:23 PDT


At 3:23 PM -0400 4/12/05, Recovry4x4@aol.com wrote:
>Now this.....is a crime!

Actually, it beats the ship going to the breakers in the mud flats of Bangladesh to end up as scrap metal recycled into Chincese copies of US cars or being turned into a reef with nary a whimper.

Being blown to smithereens like the Bikini Atoll tests at least yields some good hard data on how resilient the hulls really are.

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