Video. All Sources. Checked Hourly. Organized by Category. Oriskany Reef Dive Safety Considerations. comment by The Video from MBT divers, 2006-11-10 00:51:48. Oriskany has sunk. by: Larry Wheeler May 17th, 2006. (NNS) -- The ex-Oriskany, a decommissioned aircraft carrier, became the largest ship intentionally sunk as an artificial reef May 17 when it was sunk. and very cool video of the flooding of the dry dock in mid 2007. And USS Oriskany was not sunk off Midland Helicopters Corpus Christi, TX, but instead off Pensacola,. The top of Oriskanys island structure is at a depth of about

68 feet.. which was sunk May 17, 2006, approximately 23 miles off the coast of Pensacola.. 17 May 2006. VIDEO: Navy ship sunk to create reef. The Oriskany became the first vessel sunk under

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