USS aircraft carrier 'Mighty O' to be sunk — on purpose

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Lt. Gary Nichols, Associated Press

Onlookers watch as the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Oriskany arrives in Pensacola, Fla., in December of 2004. If all goes according to plan, the ship will plummet 210 feet to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico in the summer of 2006.

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