OFF PORT EVERGLADES, Fla. – There was quite the sight of the shores of South Florida on Wednesday.
A nearly one-thousand-foot-long ocean liner, called the SS United States, sailed past Port Everglades.
The massive vessel, which still holds the transatlantic speed record that it set more than 70 years, is heading to the Florida Panhandle.
But the SS United States is not moving under its own power.
It is being tugged by a steel rope, which is a third of a mile long.
The historic ocean liner left Philadelphia last week, where it had been docked since 1996.
The SS United States was originally built in 1952, and is 53,000 tons, 990-feet-long and 175-feet-tall.
Crews plan to sink the ship in the Gulf off the coast of Destin and Ft. Walton Beach, where it will become the world’s largest artificial reef.