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USS Arthur W. Radford to be sunk to form artificial reef off N.J. coast next month
The vessel will be reefed at the Del-Jersey-Land Inshore Site (developed jointly by Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey), off the Delaware Coast approximately 26 miles southeast of the Indian River Inlet at a depth of 120-130 feet.
The 563-foot U.S. Navy destroyer Arthur W. Radford will be scuttled about 30 miles from Cape May County's shore next month, making it the largest vessel sunk off the East Coast to serve as an artificial reef
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The decommissioned warship, the former USS Arthur W. Radford, is now at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where it is being cleaned and prepared for scuttling this fall.
The $800,000 cost of preparation, towing and sinking is being shared by New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, according to the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife.
"We're shooting for deployment in the mid-October to mid-November range," said Lawrence Hajna, spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Artificial reefs are nothing new to the waters off Ocean City. Among the objects sunk to attract fish and tourism in recent decades were about 400,000 tires, slashed, chained, weighted and dumped in the 1960s and 1970s. Corrosion and storms later conspired to set thousands of them free, periodically turning up in fishing trawlers' nets and littering the Assateague Island shoreline.
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