The USS Ling Ready For Scrap?

I do hope they can at least save it and relocate. Perhaps somewhere on th shores of either New Jersey or NYC. Moving shouldn't be a problem. Choppers, cranes and a tractor trailer. Even if they need to split it in two, it can be done. Of course those cost money too.

I dunno, Vol. 312 feet long, 4 million pounds, no doubt a nightmare of asbestos.

Our Pampanito cost $ 600,000 to get the bottom scraped and repainted. 

I'm sure it's a one way trip to Brownsville.

Maybe they could save the fairwater.

No doubt GM. Sadly I, too, agree it will end up in a scrap yard. Like you mentioned, the cost to restore the underside will be tremendous, not to mention the tons of abesto inside the submarine.

They will have to get the sub out of the river before they scrap it, as the DEP and EPA have nixed cutting it up IN the river.  Yet, if they get it out, they'll have to transport it somewhere else as I doubt the developer who has evicted the museum wants this environmental hazard cut up on his property.

So if you're going to lift it out and then move it anyway, why not save it?  Waiting to see how this goes.

Of course, if a channel could be cut deep enough, maybe they could fill it full of ping-pong balls to "float" it out.  

Hmmm;

 Is there a way she could be lifted whole ? Then she could be set down in a bed of wet concrete . Now that would extend her life and the proper sealing work could be done to ensure she didn't disappear below the water-line .

 She would look great sitting at waterline depth in a Memorial park there . With visitors still being able to go aboard . I saw one ( I don't remember where ) that had this done .The only non naval thing was the entry door .

   That was constructed and let into her side at the control room . Minor , But , ensured her survival . The door was at the rear of the presentation ,Port Side , so the whole sub was all you could see from the Starboard side . That's all I can think of .   T.B.