once the fastest ocean liner in the world, the ss united states, today, will become the world's largest artificial reef. you can watch the sinking, scheduled for 1pm EST, livehttps://www.destinfwb.com/explore/eco-tourism/ssus/
if only you knew how bad things really are
>>546047767SINKEX shit is sad, they deserve better
>>546047767the death of white americathe birth of a beangroidal niggermonkey supermajority
>>546047767>empires last on average 250 years>SS United States sunk on year 250Makes sense.
>>546049699There's no better end for her. It was either preservation as a reef, or a cutters torch. All the interiors were stripped out years ago. Any attempts to restore/refurbish her into running condition were quickly found to be about as expensive as just building a new ship.
NOOOOOOOTHE BRITISH ARE BEHIND THIS
>>546047767>spending 14 million dollars to sink a ship instead of recycling the steelwhy does this smell like money laundering?
>>546050186SS United States Owner:1952–1970: United States Lines1970–1980: US Maritime Administration1980–1992: Richard Hadley1992–1997: Marmara Marine Inc.1997–2003: Edward Cantor2003–2011: Norwegian Cruise Line2011–2024: SS United States Conservancy2024–present: Okaloosa County, Florida
this rusty piece of shit has been an imposition on the ikea customers and strip club patrons of south philly for decades. thank FUCK it's finally going kaput
My uncle was aboard on his honeymoon on one of the crossings where she won the Blue Riband for fastest passage of the Atlantic. Averaged over 40 mph. He had been a destroyer sailor in WW2 and was absolutely blown away by the power and speed.
lol
>>546047767Seems like some predictive programming shit from the ziokikes.
>>546050027The government just couldn't step in, buy the ship and restore it with infinite tax payer money. See, the money had to go to a certain foreign government. It just had to, okay
>>546051054> calling me a jewno, l'm catholic
>>546051544You're a spiritual jew
>>546047767https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJLBcsdx3ILive StreamLET'S WATCH AMERICA SINK
>>546049699World's largest artificial reef with depths from beginner to expert. Museum ashore to preserve her history and artifacts stripped before the sinking. Would you prefer her grounded near Mumbai and cut to scrap by barefoot barbarians?>>546047767Been watching since the stream started. What a lovely send off for an absolutely perfect girl.
>>546049912It's also fucking Veteran's Day.
They saved every porthole on her for the museum. A lot of love and care has gone into this and it's inspiring to see. >>546053482Press F to show some respect.
>>546053898F to White America
>>546053898Arguably the most iconic passenger vessel ever, after the Titanic. Aesthetically and in construction, the SS United States is a floating testament to the Chicago Style of International Modernism, and the power of industrial man.
William Francis Gibbs was obsessed with making the safest, particularly against fire, ships possible. Traumatized by what happened to ships like Morro Castle. As a result, United States and America used zero wood in their construction. Truly an amazing naval architect. Giving the world its fastest liners. Records that will likely never be broken. The age of the ocean liner is such a beautiful one, so many nations and builders put their best efforts into creating these vessels. Only the Queen Mary 2 still runs and few others exist in any recognizable form. At least United States will be preserved in a way, as her own legacy, and as a tribute to the ships (and tragedies) of the past that resulted in her safety-focused design.
l don't like all these people's on the fireboat not wearing PFDs
>>546054720Truly amazing. Looks like her stern is showing some drop.
>>546050868Powerful. It really is though.
>>546053482This ship did more for America than any vetroon.
With all the billions, nay trillions of dollars pissed away on niggers and jews, it's a fucking travesty this hull wasn't refurbished and brought back to museum condition for posterity.
Anyone seen any indication of underwater live streams? There's a bunch of charter boats around her, someone's gotta have a down camera.>>546057327>1999 - would you like to continue>Y/N>>546057378You'll realize how incorrect that attitude is when you grow up, fren.
>>546053898>The ship's return to the United States was marked with celebration as she was escorted into New York City by bands, helicopters, and small boats, and was met by a crowd of thousands. As a public symbol of the Blue Riband, a long, blue flag was flown from her radar mast as she approached. Many people noticed her fresh hull paint had worn off, apparently due to the high speeds at which she traveled.[37] Her crew was officially welcomed to the city several days later with a ticker-tape parade, escorted by more than 2,000 people and greeted by a crowd of 150,000. The centerpiece of the event was the liner's captain, Commodore Harry Manning, who is one of the few people to receive a Ticker-tape parade twice after his 1929 rescue of crewmembers from the cargo ship Florida.>At the time of her withdrawal, United States had made 800 transatlantic crossings (400 round trips), steamed 2,772,840 nautical miles (3,190,930 mi; 5,135,300 km), and carried 1,025,691 passengers.
>>546047767I've followed this story for years. There was a real effort to explore getting her seaworthy again.I really liked the idea of going on an old fashioned retro cruise. I thought maybe one of the companies could pull it off by playing up the retro vintage angle.
>>546054720<3
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>>546057838She's packed with memories and new ones get to be made by generations of divers and fishermen now. Gorgeous propeller in your pic. Is it on permanent display in NYC?Looks like the close out crew is packing up onboard.
When does flooding start?
>>546058281>The United States carried two five-bladed propellers and two four-bladed ones. One of the four-bladed propellers is mounted at Pier 76 in New York City and the other is mounted outside the American Merchant Marine Museum at the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York. The starboard-side five-bladed propeller is mounted near the waterfront at SUNY Maritime College in Fort Schuyler, New York, while the port side five-bladed propeller is fitted on an original 63 ft (19 m) long drive shaft at the entrance of the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia.[142] A third five-bladed propeller was aboard the ship when she was moved to Mobile and will be preserved in the museum.[143]The ship's bell, which is kept in a clock tower on the campus of Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, is used to celebrate special events, and is rung by incoming freshmen and by outgoing graduates.No hard feelings, I just don't like that they helped kill America for a profit and a pickup truck. >>546058422Already started a while ago AFAIK
>>546058137in the 1980s the newly refurbished QE2 was the place to be for a short time. it was a big deal to fly to europe and take the QE2 home (or vice versa) but then cheap cruises to multiple warm-weather ports on giant ships with roller coasters became the rage. ocean liners lost their romance. if only the titanic movie came out a little earlier....
>>546058464It's tough but hulls have lifespans. I understand your sentiment but am unsure how realistic fully restoring her for a museum ship would be. She's the size of an aircraft career. The restoration and ongoing maintenance costs would be enormous. It would be amazing to drink mai tais in one of those bars, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is7y6LrAnBUSal is chatting over the stream
So, is she getting a replacement?
>>546047767>will become the world's largest artificial reef.WOKE
>>546047767>oy vey, it's going to cost a billion to throw out our garbage>tell the goyim it's for the fish!
>>546058998No. No company is building ocean liners right now bc there’s no demand for them. Cruise ships for sure, but not proper liners. I don’t think they will ever build one again. If anybody did, it would be Cunard though. >there is no longer a need for speed and safety over tough sea conditions when it comes to passenger sea travel
>>546050186Likely because you are an idiot.
This drone video is fantastic. Only time to ever get these kind of views.
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>>546059106You're brown.
>>546047767All of this is proof that American boomers are idiots for letting American industry die. In 1952, America possessed one of the fastest ocean liners in the world, but it lost that record a long time ago. When discussing developed nations during the first half of the 20th century, people took note of such things as having the fastest trains, something the U.S., with its immense industrial might, had in abundance. It comes as no surprise that some claim the American economy is fake
It's not level uh oh
>>546059778Hopefully the new Office of Shipbuilding will stealth be a Good Thing like the Space Force.
Stern is starting to go lower. If they're just slowly flooding her, it's going to be very little...and then go very quickly at the end.
There is no way this is gonna sink before sunset.>4:45pm estBlow a couple of holes innit
>>546060001>1so close :(
>>546059892>Hopefully the new Office of Shipbuilding will stealth be a Good Thing like the Space Force.it wont be, and im tired of hearing talking points like this
>>546060003They're using firehoses to fill the ship until side doors are under water.Shit is gonna take forever.
>>546059892Don’t interact with memefags. It just encourages them. > In 1952, America possessed one of the fastest ocean liners in the world, but it lost that record a long time ago.SS United States is the fastest ocean liner ever made, a record that stands to this day
What is this jeet 240p quality? Man, America's really going down in the dumps.
>>546060126She has essentially perfect lines.
>>546047767I think this might be something much bigger than appears on the surface. When that oil tanker got trapped in the Suez/Zeus canal and it ran aground people were showing that it was deliberate and a sign of the coming end of this admiralty law system, where humans are given birth records like ships and pay taxes to the Crown by being duped into representing this legal fiction which has your name but is essentially a corporation making you its bonded labourer. Today the SS United States gets scuttled 444 weeks to the day from the launch date of the Ever Given container ship. Lucifer = 444, and its a big number in their world.
Surprisingly, she's larger than Titanic. Makes sense since she's 40 years younger. She really doesn't look it though, the ship in the Cameron movie looks much more...titanic.
>45 minute What went wrong?
>>546060466* not oil tanker, - container ship
>>546060090>They're using firehoses to fill the ship until side doors are under water.>Shit is gonna take forever.Like filling up a pool with a garden hose.THEY'VE OPENED 'ER HOLES BOIS!!
>>546060548I guess getting it to sink “just right” is more important than speed in this case. Once it’s down it’s done. No moving it.
>>546047767It will be a decade or more before it is worth fishing. The Oriskany is the tits. About a 30 mile run from Pensacola pass. There are a lot of "public" wrecks in this area. Alabama has a fuckton too.
>>546060622Anything involving a huge mass moving you take slowly. Or you end up with a crater on the street and your shrieks becoming social media fodder.Why they didn't go out sooner though is beyond me, this is dangerous to do at night.
Could have filled it with explosives, drove it up to the shore of Port-au-Prince and detonated it. Utterly flatten everything still standing in Haiti. It would have been really funny.
>>546060622>I guess getting it to sink “just right” is more important than speed in this case. Once it’s down it’s done. No moving it.Yeah, well... I got a Dr's appointment so this mf better start sinking real quick.
>>546047767I get that ocean liners don't make economic sense anymore. It's not really that aspect that makes me sad. It's how good the nationalistic patriotism must have felt back then. The fastest ocean liner in the world. The last record holder of the Blue Riband. Made in the USA. Named after the USA. Made the country proud. Made other countries jealous. Leader of the free world. All that stuff. That's not a thing anymore. We've gone from a country that idolized american excellence to a country that worships brown people. America basically worships civilizational decay at this point. The people that built and operated the SS United States would be horrified by this future.
>>546060502The Olympics dwarfed what came before. And within two years, they were already smaller than other ships. What they're putting onto the seas today are mind boggling, but also lack any charming look.
>>546060755It only takes a little bit of volcanic activity for air travel to be impossible in a region. Having some kind of passenger liner capability makes strategic if not economic sense.
>>546060730> Why they didn't go out sooner though is beyond me, this is dangerous to do at night.Agreed. You’d hope there was a good reason. 8/5 weather/ sea conditions related.
>>546060977Cruise ships can do it. They’re just slower and can’t operate in rough seas the way liners can.
>>546060548It'll be a lot more fun to dive in if it actually lands in the bottom upright and in tact. You want to be able to swim into the bar and pretend you're serving the fish drinks otherwise whats the goddamn point of it all
>>546061160>swim into the bar and pretend you're serving the fish drinkspoint taken.
>>546060920Yeah I know, but the perspectives here are still confusing my mind. In the movie, jumping off the ship seemed like falling off a midsize building, but this seems....not that bad? Like I wouldn't jump for fun, but people do this all the time.
>there is still people on deck I doubt this is going to happen today
>>546059180i remember when i lost my mind.
Okay we are actually sinking now for real this time
>>546061099Great. That plastic playground can almost do the job, pardon the norovirus, if Iceland goes hot for a decade. Seems weird compared to a dedicated, fast transport.>>546061344Fiction vs. reality. This ship is significantly larger than Titanic, too. It's only a four, maybe five story drop from the roof of the bridge to the waterline.
>>546060126Are you going to deny that American industry today is a joke compared to what it was in the early 20th century?
>>546049912This
>>546061702Not really a fair view of its height since its sinking
>>546061900It's not really sinking yet, it's at basically the same height as cruising, the waterline is clearly visible.
>>546061900The waterline is that part where the hull goes from black to red. It should always float evenly, somewhat below that line.
>>546047767Crazy how much we can spend on Jews but not preserve this shit
>>546047767THE FINAL EDOMRome must fall for Jerusalem to rise.
On the bittersweet topic of ships, I think Britannic tops my list. So many safety improvements and more luxurious fittings over her sisters, and she never even got the chance to try to succeed. So much lost potential and perhaps even could have saved White Star. Put right into war and then lost. Her one dignity is that she was serving a noble mission as a hospital ship.
Same energyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trVrE8_3B44
>>546062039>>546062098Fowling paint doesnt end at the waterline. Every picture shows much more fowling paint above the waterline then the picture posted during its ongoing sinking
Why isn't this a media event with fireworks, Celine Dion at full blast and fighter jets doing low flybys?Are you OK America?
>>546063232They're so late, there's not even going to be any pictures of the sinking. You'd think they could at least ask for a flyby, Eglin Air Force Base is literally RIGHT THERE lmao
does anyone in here live on the gulf coast? how do dive boats and fishing boats get along? l know this reef will be billed as a dive destination, but the women in the beginning also mentioned fishing. in some places, divers and fishermen don't mix well. and this reef is in international water. can destin, florida, anyone else charge a fee to use the reef? who will patrol this, the coast guard?
>>546063232Those theatrics are being saved for the sinking of the SS George Floyd
>>546063489Kek imagine such a vessel
>>546047767I still don't understand how it's somehow more expensive to cut apart a steel hull than to dig up a bunch of ore, drive it around, smash it and then melt it
The women were so fucking annoying, I'm glad they fucked off when it didn't happen as quickly as they thought it should. Number of women involved in constructing and designing the ship lmao?
It's just a fucking boat who cares
>fucked up sinking a ship Even for Americans this is embarrassing
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a guy on the tv news said "they are bringing in lights" to illuminate the ship
>>546063444Checked. It’s going to lie over 22 miles offshore. The divers who go there will be serious dudes. Same for fishermen.
>>546060920I mean from an engineering perspective the Icon is fascinating and I wish they could just give tours of the mechanical spaces without having to book a passage. What strikes me most though is that a vessel can be made to such a massive size for the pure purpose of pleasure, it tells me that not everything in our society is shit
>>546049487>>546049699>>546049804>>546049912>>546050087Airplanes are behind this and the only way to reverse the trend is to ban international air travel.No international air travel = no mass migration. I have yet to see one (1) good reason why anyone needs to fly anywhere. Even domestic travel the excuses given are pathetic like muh business or muh family. Newsflash, we have zoom now you fucking retard. Drive, take a boat or the train. Don't have the time or money? That's a you problem and it isn't worth the external costs that come with a fast cheap joyride. You should be against air travel the same reason anyone with a brain is against busses.If you really had somewhere to go, then you would pony up the big bucks and would be indifferent to how long it takes to get there. Convenience for a whore to take some Instagram pics of her "vacation" is not a meritable reason for sky busses. The only exceptions I see is private air travel, which is akin to a car and not a bus so get the money to buy your own private jet or shut your fucking mouth. Airships can work too, Hindenburg specs so only high tier people can afford the time/cost expense.We do not need 800 passenger sky busses taking people from Mumbai to Miami for $400 in less than a day. Nationalize all airlines, give the airplanes to the post office and UPS, use the trillions of dollars to invest in private ship building, segregated trains, airships. No bus configuration for long journeys. Individual rooms so capacity remains low.
>>546064248l think it will be a zoo. even smaller boats can make 22 miles no problem. and eventually, the wreck will be covered in fishing line. l hope people keep their cool out there
>>546060502Titanic has more funnels so it makes it feel more substantial than it is, especially from ground level.
>>546064522I can respect the actual designing and features of larger cruise ships. And designers/crews of past liners would be blown away by how efficient they are.I just think externally they are not pretty much of the time. Also I think some take it too far with trying to not be a ship. I sailed on Oasis of the Seas when she was fairly new and all the open spaces just felt wrong.
>>546064918Only 3 of the funnels were functional. The fourth one is for looks
This thing will be in the UK by the time it sinks
>>546047767Are they gonna shoot it?
>>546065412Imagine the smell, I love it when the oilfags get off work by boat and pull up next to seal beach pier and rev the diesel engine
>>546063444checkedthere won't be much divers on it. there are established wrecks closer to shore. that said, divers have the right of way, you just have to hope they aren't too stupid to drift away from their flag>>54606424822 miles isn't shit. I consistently run 30+ miles out and see boats much smaller that mine. I've seen fucking jon boats on the Oriskany.
>>546065006The fourth did still have a purpose in providing ventilation to engine room and exhaust from the ship's kitchens.
>>546047767A toast to the end of the United States
>>546050668Sounds like he has some stories to tell. That's cool man.
>>546047767does it have gold?
>>546064918United States also has a pool. Titanic? No swimming pool! Game. Set. Match.
>>546060920Yeah modern ones feel like kinda missing the point of a cruise SHIP. Might as well just take a plane to some resort hellhole instead.
>>546065500Those chefs probably smoked like chimneys
Why not start this in the morning so you could actually see it sink.. is everyone retarded?
>>546064772Anyone with brains will treat it respectfully. Not because of anything else, but large shipwrecks are very dangerous. Dangerous to dive, dangerous to explore, dangerous to get tangled in. >>546066003It's Florida, what do you think?
>>546060920>>546064984The way they look, especially the windows reminds me of Star Trek TNG starships. Like a living, moving hunk of the 80s at sea.
>>546065820cooks were the only people allowed to whistle on a boat. it meant they weren't smoking
>>546066591in the Marines we weren't allowed to whistle. reason was only sailors and faggots did it.
>>546049487This is a physical manifestation of the country
>>546064753Wow someone other than myself actually understands the airplane pill.
I sailed on her as a teen. I heard about this. Truly sad, but it will live on with a renewed purpose. Thanks for reminding me and linking this great "you tube" broadcast.
Why's this sinking shit taking forever
>>546050186Recycling the steel probably would have cost them more money because of the labor time involved into breaking down a ship of that size
>11/11>Veterans’ Day>sinking of the SS United StatesPretty hamfisted symbolism. This has to come from the disordered mind of a jewess. No Learned Elder of Zion would be so obvious.
>>546067155The fallacy in your thinking is that recycling the steel doesn't cost more; it MAKES profit, because it's far cheaper to cut already-refined steel than it is to mine the ore. I would have thought that was obvious, but I realize now that you were raised in a country where, at a time when, mental retardation like "recycling isn't economically feasible" actually persists. Eventually whatever monopoly perpetuated that abject stupidity will fall away and sanity will return. But not today, and possibly never for you.
>Watch Charlie Kirk have his head blown offI laugh>Watch the scuttling of an ocean linerI cry
I remember this relic rusting away in Philly years ago. Don't get the sentimentality towards this rust buckret. Should have been scrapped 30 years ago.
>>546067359How else would you do it? The owner didn't want it to end like this, but the county government literally ran out of money and the state of Florida refused to pump in the cash for it. This is the end. It's no different than when anything else had to be destroyed. There is simply no economic case for this, and Floridans refuse to pay for it any further. Anyone old enough to remember the world before jet planes obviously don't care either, because the Federal government has no preservation money either.
>>546067494You're black
Literally unsinkable
>>546067765It's bullshit we run out of money for SS united states but the kikes get a fuckin blank check
>>546067908That's literally what you vote for though. You can blame the kikes for a lot of things, but you can't say they didn't tell you.
>>546068090>That's literally what you vote for thoughI didn't vote for these fools, and I'm glad they got blown on in 2026.
>>546068250>blown onblown out I mean
She don't want to go
>>546049912This is absolutely being done symbolically by some megalomanical kikes.
So....it's been over an hour since I left for a Dr's appointment and do other shit and this bitch still at the same level as I left??Someone truly fucked up didn't they, bet this happened... "Hey Steve-O!!! You begin cuttin' those panels yet?">Steve brought a welder onboard"Ooooopsies :()"(there's a "2 more weeks" reference in there also)
>>546066884good
>>546060755To be fair it became the worlds largest artificial reef lol
>>546069495It's more of a slow and steady declin- I mean sinking
>>546051544JEW!
>>546069307A relic of the greatest days of America and the world. There was nothing we couldn't do and no record we couldn't break.
>>546069307>She don't want to gobit she will, and I'll be catching fish off her in the spring/summer once fish start to populate on it. (will take years to be a truly productive reef) One thing I like about it is that hopefully it keeps those Destin and PCB fags in their neck of the water.I'll fish it to say that I have, but have to pass 100s of other reefs and wrecks to get to it from Pensacola.I've got a fuckton of private numbers over off Santa Rosa and Okaloosa but almost never fish them.
Water isn't even up past the bottom paint yet. This could take another six hours.
>>546047767symbolic
>>546069654> I'll be catching fish off her in the spring/summer once fish start to populate on it. (will take years to be a truly productive reef) One thing I like about it is that hopefully it keeps those Destin and PCB fags in their neck of the water.Based
>>546069879We already have a federal reserve tho
>>546069764I’m betting she finally sinks around sunrise for perfect kino
>>546069569Ya see, this all could have been solved with one word....Explosives>be me>one boat either side>pack the ships arsehole with explosives>*POP*>the bitch goes arse down>the front follows>sorry bois, pack it up, no overtime*everyone claps and goes home*
>>546070217Obviously you're not a jewish screenwriter but I'm 60% certain you might be Michael Bay on vacation
>>546069495> went to the doctor and did other shitl'm off today. l figured l'd eat lunch while watching this ship sink, then rake leaves. l just had dinner. l guess l will be raking leaves in the dark, or maybe dawn
>>546070308I read that in Dr Frasier Cranes' voice.
>>546070217They're getting paid by the hour
btw, a more sensible and much more easily accessible wreck is the USS Massachusetts. It lays right outside of the pass so if weather turns shit you can be back in the bay in minutes.Warning to anyone taking a boat to it for the first time, it is only mostly submerged. you can 100% hit it with your boat. I think it may be 30' of water in that area.The area is full of wrecks and reefs. There is the Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail that will continue to add more wrecks. For divers, the ones that are closer to shore are safer, if for no other reason the depth. You really don't see any real depth around here until multiple miles off shore.The Gulf off Dixie County is barely 30' deep 16 miles off shore. I only know that because I put a shitload of artificial reefs in the water down there. Panhandle gets deeper faster but you are not seeing land by the time you get to 100'. The shelf is doable in smaller boats on a nice day if you want to get retarded. Problem with running deep enough for tuna in a smaller boat is fuel capacity. I can run about 400 miles on full tanks. That is still pushing it to get to the good tuna and having enough fuel to get back.
>>546070124>we
>>546070217WTF is that webm real?Where is this cat?
>>546069764>one hour laterWater STILL isn't even up past the bottom paint yet.Sunrise is 10 hours away. Think she'll last that long?
>reactivate the iowas >boom boom boom>ship sinks>mothball iowas for 10 years>sink iowas
