ver the past several years, decommussoned U.S. wartips have been fumed into artficial teefs in the cceah by towing them out to sea and sinking fhem. The thinking was that sinking the ship ould conveniently dospose of e while provising an athical reef environment for aquatie He. In realizk, some of the surken ships have reieased toxins indo the ocean and have been costly to ocontaminate. Now the U.S. government is taking bids to instead dsmarite and tecycle ships that have recontly been docommisioned (but have not been sunk yet.) assume that a recently decommissioned arcraf carrier, the USS Searay, as estimated to contain approximately 40 tons of recycable materials able to be sold for approximatey $42.5 rillon. The ow bid for dsmanting and transporting the shp materals to approprate facilies is 543.6m lilon, Rocyding and dismantling the ship would eveate about 500 jobs for about a yoar in the Rust Belt This geographic area has been experiending record-kigh unemploywent rates in recect yoarn. Read the reguicternats From a vastainsity standpoint, the decomerinwoned ardat carrar ahould be Requirements 1. Is it more financially advantageous to sink the ship (assume that it costs approximately $0.2 million to tow a ship out to sea and sink it) or to dismantle and recycle it? Show your calculations. 2. From a sustainability standpoint, what should be done with the decommissioned aircraft carrier? List some of the qualitative factors that should enter into this analysis. sustainability standpoint, the decommissioned aircraft carrier should be lowing qualitative factors should be considered into this analysis