If the ship isn't recovered somehow, the environmental disaster will extend for centuries. There have been other wrecks of modern ships in the South Pacific that teams have gone in and tried to clean up afterwards, with little progress. (One of them was actually not too far east from Upolu.) Aside from the toxic chemicals including the oil and fuel, as steel rusts, the rust actually feeds an invasive algae that will grow on and choke the coral reefs, leading to a significant collapse of the ecosystem.
If I can rant a little, the relatively recent "great idea" to sink decommissioned ships to create "artificial reefs" is a psyop to make the public think that something good is happening. In reality it's a cheap way to dispose of ships essentially turning the ocean into a garbage dump. The claim is that they increase the numbers of fish, but this is another psyop. They are fish congregators, not spawning sites. The only place in the world where it's economically feasible to completely recycle ships is in southeast Asia where labor is cheap. Everywhere else they sink them.
The captain always goes down with her ship. You wanted the position lady, set an example.
If the ship isn't recovered somehow, the environmental disaster will extend for centuries. There have been other wrecks of modern ships in the South Pacific that teams have gone in and tried to clean up afterwards, with little progress. (One of them was actually not too far east from Upolu.) Aside from the toxic chemicals including the oil and fuel, as steel rusts, the rust actually feeds an invasive algae that will grow on and choke the coral reefs, leading to a significant collapse of the ecosystem.
If I can rant a little, the relatively recent "great idea" to sink decommissioned ships to create "artificial reefs" is a psyop to make the public think that something good is happening. In reality it's a cheap way to dispose of ships essentially turning the ocean into a garbage dump. The claim is that they increase the numbers of fish, but this is another psyop. They are fish congregators, not spawning sites. The only place in the world where it's economically feasible to completely recycle ships is in southeast Asia where labor is cheap. Everywhere else they sink them.
So sinking ships to create reefs isn’t ’safe And effective’?
She was placed in position to sink the ship.
Someone should board it for the prize money.