The prospects for the historic cruise ship the SS United States, which has been docked in Philadelphia for years and locked in a protracted legal battle with its landlord, are looking up.
Or, more accurately, they’re looking down — as in down to the bottom of the sea where the hulking mass of a ship, at nearly 1,000 feet long, could become the world’s largest artificial reef.
That possibility took a step forward on Tuesday after the leaders of a Florida county agreed to a contingent contract to buy the SS United States with plans to sink it…