The USS John F. Kennedy [CV 67], which hasn't been deployed since 2004, is the last petroleum-powered aircraft carrier in the US fleet. Virginia legislators denied the Pentagon's FY 2006 request to retire the carrier, but as Defense Industry Daily reported a year ago, attitudes changed once they were presented with the estimated $2+ billion cost of restoring her to fighting condition.
It would seem that even the Kennedy’s days of serving as a stateside training platform have come to an end, as a recent contract begins the process of decommissioning the ship.
So it seems like every other state gets a ship to sink and then dive and fish on … and this one would make for a doozy.
Get the reef people in New Jersey and New York together, as well as the dive and fishing communities in both states and I bet it could be pulled off. Lot’s of money in big sunken ships for recreation that any coastal community would like to get their hands on. Why not ours?
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