SS United States goes underwater, with a museum planned ashore

CBS Philadelphia's reef-deployment broadcast pairs offshore preparations with memories of the liner's passengers and plans to preserve part of its smoking lounge.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 524,746 views a day, 166 times a normal first day on this channel (3,167).

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Lisa, a visitor from New York, brings a passenger's memory to the SS United States' final voyage: her mother emigrated aboard the liner in 1955 and remembered it as the trip of a lifetime.

That encounter is part of CBS Philadelphia's extended coverage of the ship's deliberate sinking off Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida. After decades docked in Philadelphia, the former transatlantic liner has been deployed as an artificial reef, described by organizers as the world's largest.

The broadcast drew about 525,000 views in its first day, far beyond the station's usual audience for longer uploads. Separate reports on the sinking also attracted unusually large audiences.

The coverage, supplied by Destin-Fort Walton Beach, moves between the ship offshore and a waterfront gathering where divers, residents and officials discuss what comes next. At roughly 51 minutes, cameras show scuttling charges detonating along the hull. Much of the broadcast follows the preparations rather than offering a quick sinking clip.

For Philadelphia viewers, there is also a piece of the ship's story that will stay above water. Okaloosa County plans a land-based museum documenting the liner's history, eventually including the bar from its smoking lounge. Alongside the proposed underwater destination, that gives former passengers and people who knew the ship from the waterfront another way to encounter its past.

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The numbers

The extended deployment broadcast drew an exceptional first-day audience for CBS Philadelphia. Its other sinking reports also ran well ahead of their usual starts.

the video's first day

usual first day here

3,167

this video

524,746

subscribers

431,000

▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days

total views

393,057,817

views per day

997,967

typical day: 185,759

the video

views

525,811

likes

2,708

comments

25

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

NBC Chicago

460,000

FOX 29 Philadelphia

432,000

CBS Philadelphia

431,000

NBCLA

428,000

WCCO - CBS Minnesota

423,000

FOX 13 Seattle

404,000

As of November 13, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.