Okaloosa County commissioners voted in October to buy the SS United States for $10 million and use it as an artificial reef. It’s estimated that the economic benefit will be $3 million a

Though some were skeptical the vessel could make it through such a journey, it faced 14-foot waves and high winds without much trouble.

The SS United States is about 1,800 nautical miles closer to its final destination. It took 12 days to move the massive ocean liner from its South Philadelphia mooring in the Delaware River to the port of Mobile,