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Inside the forecastle deck onboard the Decommissioned US Navy (USN) Intrepid Class Aircraft Carrier USS ORISKANY (CV 34), a civilian employee with the Resolve Marine Group, cuts away the towing chains as the ships arrives at its final destination 22-miles south of Pensacola, Florida (FL) in approximately 212-ft. of water in the Gulf of Mexico, where it will become the largest ship ever intentionally sunk as an artificial reef. After ORISKANY reaches the bottom, ownership of the vessel will transfer from the USN to the State of Florida
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Base: USS Oriskany (CVA 34)
Scene Camera Operator: PHAN David Quillen, USN
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.
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