Saying goodbye to an icon - and creating a new world for the little fishies...

 The famous ocean liner - which is longer than the Titanic and crossed the Atlantic more than 800 times - was deliberately sunk Wednesday to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, where the once-luxurious behemoth was set to begin a new chapter as the world’s largest artificial reef. It was a long goodbye.

Hours after the sinking began on a cloudy afternoon, much of the hulking ship could still be seen in the dark waters off the coast of the Florida Panhandle by nightfall. In it's heyday, it was the fastest cruise ship in the world. The full story of this marvelous, legendary ship can be found here.