Indian navy wants to sink a ship off Puducherry – Here’s why
The Indian navy wants to sink a ship. The ship is one of its own. The INS Cuddalore is a decommissioned minesweeper. It will be sunk in the waters 7 km off the coast of Puducherry. It will become India’s first underwater museum. Under normative circumstances, barnacles are never a good thing for a ship. But these unwanted weed-like barnacles are crucial to the success of the venture. Algae and barnacles have to encrust the rusty remains of the 60-metre-long and 12-metre-wide vessel to encourage fish and other sea creatures to make…
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