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Why can't they recycle the steel?

The Ticonderoga class cruisers and Spruance class destroyers just needed some maintenance and TLC, and they would have lasted another 30 years.

It's sad that she was sunk I could have lived on her.😂

Don’t know why it’s sink ex they blew it from inside

The superstructure on this class of ships amazing as it is intimdating. This ship has great lines..

I wish they would of kept one spruance as a museum ship. It was the work horse of the fleet for the last end of the cold war. We have enough carrier museum's

Thanks for posting this, Bob! Hope you are doing well today. Served onboard '90 - '92. CIC Watch Sup. She was a good gal that took us out, and brought us safely home. Sad the Navy killed her off in her prime. She had a lot of good deployments left in her. I did attend her Decom and got to see some of the old crew.

Is it shallow enough to dive on?

The superstructure on this class of ships amazing as it is intimdating

scrapping makes more sense, look at hte oil slick just ahead off the starboard bow.. lots of $$$ worth of GOOD OLD USA STEEL in that one

USS Spruance DD-963 from 83-87. She was sent to Davy Jones Locker in a live fire exercise. Great Ships and even greater Crews. Fair Winds and Following Seas

Served aboard for 4 years from May 1981 to Jan 1985. Lots of really good memories of the ship.

I believe this happened to the two ships I served aboard: Belknap (CG-26) and Conolly (DD-979)

I was a plank owner. Brought her out of Pascagoula to San Diego,REFTRA and then WestPac. It was a great ship and crew. Profound sadness at seeing her go down.

Extra ordinary. Gracefully she went down.

Stern first and straight down.

Shako, l lived on that bad boy for 4 years

All that steel wasted.

So how long would one of these hulls last before they are not seaworthy? Im sure the metal does not last forever riding the waves on the high seas.

I served on her sister ship-USS JOHN ROGERS (DD-983)- in the late 80s. The Spruance class destroyers were highly feared above and below the sea. Like the 983, it appears the 984 was fitted with Tomahawk missiles -which are still used today- they were the BEAST in the 80s. Godspeed shipmates.

Horrible !!! What a giant waste! Surly something else could be done. Mothballing comes to mind, almost anything besides this. Salvaging would have returned some of its worth.

Why don’t reuses the steel again.

Waste of good metal

What did it actually take to sink her?

These were pretty cool Spruance class ships. They were actually built for the Iranian Navy but delivery didn't take place because the Shah of Iran was overthrown. They had wide passageways to accommodate live animals :O

I was a Stumper, 84-89. Where are you located?

I’m surprised they don’t salvage more of the steel from the hull etc. all that just sunk off the coast of Kauai.

I was onboard USS Caron DD970 from 1990-94. IC3. I was heartbroken when I got the news that they had sunk the Caron. It was like getting the news that your first love had been murdered! Oddly though, there wasn’t any video shot of her actually sinking. Just the explosion that led to her demise and a few stills of the ship listing to starboard and that’s it.

MAKING A REEF FOR SEA LIFE HAS A PLACE TO CALL HOME , THIS I CAN SEE ...

Have any video for DD 987

Another ship heading to 15K feet of water but this one went with a single shot.

What a sight that would be underwater

Hate to admitt but i remember when this class was commissioned!

ATTENTION ON DECK!

Remembering when the Spruance class cans first hit the fleet. USS Halsey CG23 80-83. RIP.

Served aboard the USS Fletcher, DD-992 in the mid 80’s. It sure hurts to see these ships be sunk like garbage scows....

My brother was in that ship 91-93

What a shame. It could have been the Command ship of some small Navy.

Spruances were in a bad position in the late 90s. Too old to fit into the present fleet. Too new and too similar to the Ticos to go foreign navies that wanted them, like Turkey and Mexico.

Always a sad sight to see a ship sink

Sad to see ! Serve in 89-92 ! Awesome ship and crew ! Stay safe shipmates! Adios

RIP USS Leftwich.........

I currently serve aboard CG-62 and seeing this video kinda made me sad to watch an old warship go :(

So wrong in so many ways.

It would have been more useful using it as live fire torpedo practice, or harpoon missile firings.

To those commenting that it should be made into a museum ship, where do you think it can be docked for that and who's going to pay those fees? If we made every ship a museum ship, where would we dock the commissioned ships?

They were not very watertight, not enough compartments. I was on John Young DD973

Oh ok, it was a target sinking....whew!!!

Where are the people? Lifeboats...? How did this ship sink?

YN3 Hannah served on this for 1983 - 1987. Crossed the equator this in 1985-87.