The 150-foot tug boat that the cockroach is welded to will be towed 20 miles south of Pascagoula and sunk 90 feet to the sea floor.
D’IBERVILLE, Miss. - A 70-foot steel cockroach will soon be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico and turned into a reef. Thursday, the people behind the project gave WLOX News an exclusive look at the potentially world-record-setting display.
“It’s a pretty wild project,” Gulf Stream Marine owner Will Ladnier told WLOX News. “I’ve never done one just like this before, but I have sunk many vessels in the northern Gulf and special reef zones to rehabilitate the marine environment.” “We remove all wood, insulation, plastic, wiring, fuel, oil, hydraulic oil, there’s many things to remove to make it so clean that it fits the marine environment, and then it gets inspected,” Ladnier said.“I’ll create very strategic holes to flood each compartment. There’s often times a hundred compartments and you have to flood each one and vent the air out at a specific flow and volume to keep it from turning over,” he explained.
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