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

The SS United States, the former luxury ocean liner that was parked in South Philadelphia for almost 30 years, has reached Mobile, Ala., faster than expected and in one piece, proving skeptics wrong.

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,