By Don Jacobson
Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The historic ocean liner SS United States, whose fate had been in limbo for years, will begin its transition into the world's largest sunken artificial reef beginning this week in Philadelphia, its owner says.
On Thursday, the 1,000-foot vessel, hailed in the 1950s as America's Greatest Ocean Liner, is scheduled to be towed from a pier in Philadelphia to Mobile, Ala., where it will undergo preparations to be scuttled off the Florida Panhandle by its new owner, Okaloosa County, Fla.
The county plans to make it the crown jewel in its ongoing efforts to boost fishing and sport diving tourism by creating new artificial reefs in the Gulf of Mexico.
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