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Originally Posted by RAL's_pal?
Hey cRusty, aren't all those ships basically in "safe storage" meaning they're just rusting away?
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With the exception of the Iowa, in a word, YES.
Actually, the Mispillion is no longer there. She has been towed to the Gulf Coast for scrapping.
Not all the ships have dehumidification (D/H) systems on them. Iowa has 9 machines all in operating order with even a back up generator on deck should shore power be lost.
Here's the most expensive catamaran ever built in the world, USS Pigeon. With the decommissioning of her, her sister ship Ortolan and both DSRV's we no longer have a rescue system for submarines that have bottomed out but did not go below crush depth (as the Russian subs always seem to do),