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Sunken treasure: Historic US ocean liner reborn as artificial reef

Verified: 16 outlets in 10 countries have reported this story since Nov 10, 3 of them from the United States.

📍 United States, US·🕐 5h ago·16 outlets

A majestic and all but indestructible 20th-century ocean liner that once ferried royal leaders, movie stars and even the "Mona Lisa" to the United States was being deliberately sunk Wednesday to become the world's largest artificial reef.

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Phys.org· Specialist ↗New Straits Times· National ↗The Guardian· National ↗Gulf News· National ↗UPI· News agency ↗1News· National ↗

The story so far · 19 reports · · 10 countries✓ Verified Nov 11, 5:25 AM UTC

3 outlets from the United States, where the story is: NPR News, Phys.org, UPI · how we count

Nov 10, 2:23 PM UTCFirst report
Historic ocean liner to ‘live on’ beneath waves as world’s biggest artificial reef theguardian.com ↗
Nov 10, 2:27 PM UTC+3 min
Historic ocean liner to ‘live on’ beneath waves as world’s biggest artificial reef theguardian.com (again) ↗
Nov 11, 5:25 AM UTC+15 h
This ocean liner was the world's fastest. It's being sunk to make the largest artificial reef winnipegfreepress.com ↗
Nov 12, 7:15 AM UTC+41 h
GONE: SS United States sinks into the Gulf to become world’s largest artificial reef wtva.com ↗
Nov 12, 7:51 AM UTC+41 h
Historic SS United States ocean liner sunk off Florida to create world’s largest artificial reef gulfnews.com ↗
Nov 12, 9:50 AM UTC+43 h· you’re reading this
Sunken treasure: Historic US ocean liner reborn as artificial reefphys.org (again) ↗
Nov 12, 10:29 AM UTC+44 h
Ship sunk off the coast of Florida; set to become world’s largest artificial reef bnn-news.com ↗

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[Claude] All three other reports cover the same planned sinking of the SS United States as an artificial reef off Florida, with no conflicting facts (Report 4 describes it as a future event, which is consisten

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