Recreational scuba diver Dr. Harry Wong thinks he has the perfect solution to the Navy’s dilemma of what to do with its vast stockpile of rusting, decommissioned war ships: sink them at sea.
The Portola Valley-based chiropractor and nutritionist is president of California Ships 2 Reefs, a group of devoted scuba divers, scientists and engineers whose avowed goal is to sink “20 ships in 20 years” off the California coast. If they succeed, the result will be an underwater playground of artificial reefs that would attract enough riotous marine life to make Jacques Cousteau jealous.