Foreshadowing metaphor blurs line with click bait, but its final voyage was in 1969, so new headline is too cowardly. The rust bucket will be made into an artificial reef.
SS United States was an ocean liner, not a cruise ship. It was built for getting people between US and Europe when that still mostly happened by ship, not to give people norovirus.
…it’s bound for an ending that is, in reality, a new phase of its life: serving as an artificial reef that attracts divers and marine life in the waters off Florida.
I love it when this is done. Marine life absolutely love these things.
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Original title: United States about to be sunk.
Foreshadowing metaphor blurs line with click bait, but its final voyage was in 1969, so new headline is too cowardly. The rust bucket will be made into an artificial reef.
They are sinking the cruise ship the SS United States, it’ll be sunk to make an artificial reef
SS United States was an ocean liner, not a cruise ship. It was built for getting people between US and Europe when that still mostly happened by ship, not to give people norovirus.
I love it when this is done. Marine life absolutely love these things.