TheAge.au.com: HMAS Adelaide laid to rest
YEAR of rolling legal action and 80 minutes of dancing dolphins were not enough to save HMAS Adelaide from a watery grave.
Thousands of spectators watched yesterday as the decommissioned warship broke up and sank in less than a minute, 1.8 kilometres off Avoca Beach on the New South Wales central coast.
The sinking marked the end of more than 12 months of delays caused by protests, court proceedings, cleaning operations and finally a pod of dolphins that temporarily held up the detonations. Local Aboriginal elder Lila Kirby had performed a whale-calling ceremony on Sunday in a bid to delay the sinking.
Advertisement: Story continues below The Adelaide will now form an artificial reef and dive site. An exclusion zone will remain in place until April 15 while divers assess the vessel and its position on the ocean floor.
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