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After 3 months...and at least 4 weather delays...the stranded 225-foot minesweeper USS Guardian...is being cut-up and hauled away...from a delicate and endangered coral reef in Sulu Sea in the Philippines.
An investigation into the accident is ongoing.
The ship's January grounding caused an outcry in the Philippines.
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