Record-breaking SS United States, bigger than Titanic, is to be sunk off Florida to become the world's largest artificial reef

Okaloosa County officials expect to send the liner to the Gulf of Mexico seabed in the second week of November, weather permitting. The chosen site is roughly 22 nautical miles to the southwest of Destin. Her 1952 maiden crossing took just under three days and eleven hours — enough to break the Queen Mary's record, a mark no passenger ship has surpassed since.

A dispute over dockage fees drove her from her Philadelphia pier after nearly three decades.