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Originally Posted by privateer
Buying the Rusted Ships is cheaper then a salvage operation.
The problem is once you buy/salvage one?
You have to move it then cut it up small enuff to scrap it.
The move and haveing a place to move it to with a dry dock is not cheap.
Add the wages to the workers who must then cut it up and all the handleing to get it to a scrap buyer.
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They do it in the cutting yards here in Baltimore. There was the USS Coral Sea cut up to make razor blades. A bunch more. I watched it dwindle everyday I drove by the berth. There is money in cutting them up for scrap. For the most part getting the vessel to the cutting yard is the hurdle. If she is not sea worthy it creates a lot of logistical problems.