Do you find this sad?

Question

How much work went into the vessel, how so many people sailed to so many locations on it just for it to end up like this?

http://www.explorermagazin.de/fuer04/fu0510G.jpg

http://www.flare.net/users/e9ee52a/American%20Star%20Nov05.jpg

Answer 1

Yes, death is melancholy -- even the death of something inanimate can evoke sadness if it represents something to us.

But compared to being turned into scrap metal, a ship ending its life this way is somewhat poetic. Wrecks live on as ghosts, in pictures like this and sometimes for scuba adventures!

In addition, as the metal rusts away it will provide fertility to the sea around it; until then it will shelter small fish and provide anchorage for coral and other sea life.

Answer 2

The environmental impact is the worst part>As that ship looks pretty worn out to have been in service>

Answer 3

When the vessel has outlived its usefullness, it is often either scuttled (to become a man-made reef) or, more often, dismantled for scrap.  So what's the problem?  Good luck!

Answer 4

It looks as though it sunk, and they dredged it up.

Ships take a lot of care!  It sad because they can be maintained, unless they've been sunk and left to rust.

Too bad that they didn't plastic coat the ship ! Check out the site below.  The ship wrecked off the Canary Islands

while in tow. A small cafe looted the ship and furnished the inside of the cafe entirely with The American Star.

http://www.ssaustralishomepage.co.uk/wre...

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

I think its sad.

Not saying you arent strange though!

But so am I...