The Brazilian navy has announced that it has sunk the obsolete aircraft carrier Sao Paulo in the Atlantic Ocean. This was released by the AFP news agency on Saturday, February 4, 2023.
The Brazilian navy said in a statement that the sinking took place Friday night at about 350 km above the Atlantic Ocean and sank to a depth of 5,000 meters. . The decision to sink the six-decade-old aircraft carrier comes after Brazilian authorities were unable to find a port that would be willing to dock.
While Brazilian defense officials have claimed that they will sink the ship in the safest position, environmental activists have criticized the decision on the grounds that the Sao Paulo ship contains some soluble substances. Into the water and cause pollution to the food chain in the sea.
The first Sao Paulo aircraft carrier was a French ship built in the late 1950s and used by the French navy under the name Foch for 37 years before It was acquired by Brazil in 2000 for $ 12 million and renamed Sao Paulo. The Brazilian navy announced it would stop using it in 2017. Last year, Brazil allowed a Turkish company to dismantle the aircraft carrier to recycle it, but the plan was thwarted by Turkish environmental activists.
Brazilian navy sinks decommissioned aircraft carrier in Atlantic Ocean
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