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Aussie frigate reef plan
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An Australian frigate is to be decommissioned and sunk in 35m of water at Terrigal, an hour's drive north of Sydney.
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HMAS Adelaide was built in the USA and commissioned as Australia's first guided-missile frigate in 1980. The 138m ship will be decommissioned in late 2007 at her home port of Rockingham, Western Australia.
She will be gifted, along with $3 million for sinking preparations, to the government of New South Wales by mid-2008.
Old ships are being turned into artificial reefs and diving attractions in increasing numbers, particularly in the USA, as providing both economic disposal and a useful afterlife.
For certain types of vessel, cleaning and sinking is proving less expensive than the balance sheet from storing, breaking and scrap sales.
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