The luxury liner SS United States completed its journey Monday from South Philadelphia to Alabama, where it will undergo preparations before it is sunk in the waters off Florida's Gulf Coast to become an artificial reef.

We’ve sank dredges and ships and barges and tugboats and all kind of stuff” — David Walter, owner of Walter Marine in Orange Beach, is the go-to-guy. He has done it more than two dozen times from Texas to Florida.

Dan Rounds and Elizabeth Fowle maintain a daily routine of walking to the East End of Dauphin Island to watch the sunrise. Their routine had a lot more company on Monday, as a large group flocked for an early morning viewing of the historic,