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Okay, fair warning. i am obsessed with this story. this is the uss guardian stuck off the coast of the philippines. a giant ship being stuck on something is never a good thing. but this one happened to get stuck specifically on a unesco world heritage site, embedding its rudders in the middle of a national park in the philippines. early on once we got stuck on it, the plan was to tow the reef off at high tide. that did not work. in fact, the mine sweeper only got more stuck. ultimately the navy had to give up the ship. navy agreed for the first time in 40 years to scrap the ship.

Ship by crane. and then the truly amazing part. preparing this 224-foot-long ship to be cut into four pieces, through the hull. to make the cuts, the supervisor of sal individual said this week, we have had to painstakingly clear about a two-foot path in the ship, removing everything in our way. they had divers using chain saws and underwater cutting tools to just cut a two-foot-wide straight line through the ship, leading ultimately to this. yes, that is a cross-section of a u.s. navy mine sweeper, the first piece of the ship being craned into the area yesterday, weighing 250 tons. they hoist...

The ship, was lifted off the ship by crane. and then the truly amazing part. preparing this 224-foot-long ship to be cut into four pieces, through the hull. to make the cuts, the supervisor of sal individual said this week, we have had to painstakingly clear about a two-foot path in the ship, removing everything in our way. they had divers using chain saws and underwater cutting tools to just cut a two-foot-wide straight line through the ship, leading ultimately to this. yes, that is a cross-section of a u.s. navy mine sweeper, the first piece of the ship being craned into the area yesterday, ...

The ship, was lifted off the ship by crane. and then the truly amazing part. preparing this 224-foot-long ship to be cut into four pieces, through the hull. to make the cuts, the supervisor of salvage said this week, we have had to painstakingly clear about a two-foot path in the ship, removing everything in our way. they had divers using chain saws and underwater cutting tools to just cut a two-foot-wide straight line through the ship, leading ultimately to this. yes, that is a cross-section of a u.s. navy mine sweeper, the first piece of the ship being craned into the air yesterday, weighing...

Concerned about. >> the u.s. government is also calling this a terror attack. and this is the guy believed to be behind it all. his name is moqtar, a one-eyed veteran jihaddist with ties to al qaeda. he was apparently kicked out of the network because they say he was more interested in raising money than helping jihad. he earned the anymore neighboring the marlboro man. he also made millions of dollars from doing kidnappings of westerners and holding them ransom but he was not on a terror watch list. the u.s. and france are in talks with the government to decide if an international force shoul...