The sinking of the Rapa Nui reef at nearby Deerfield Beach.
Which *did* sink ... except, sadly, it flipped over and crushed the statues on the way down, a $500,000 "mistake".
Perhaps a step back is needed to put this in context ... the Rapa Nui statues were commissioned to be created by a local artist (and paid for by a local philanthropist) ... and they were to be sunk as an artificial reef to be a tourist attraction for scuba divers to swim in and around them after they were positioned at the bottom of the ocean floor.
However, due to bad engineering and/or an over-eager tug boat and/or the intervention of the gods who felt protective over the original Easter Island statues, the barge on which the finished product was placed that was to, in a controlled sink, head toward the bottom of the ocean, flipped over from side to side instead of just going under, and the statues slid into the ocean, with the barge coming down on top of most of them, crushing the tourist attraction-to-be.
Although, to be fair, the crushed remnants of the Rapa Nui reef from the sink-fail is now a diving destination in and of itself ... so ... you know ... there's that ...
A DRONE'S EYE VIEW OF THE EVENT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w04Wu25oHvg
A BOTTOM OF THE SEA VIEW *AFTER* THE EVENT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZmTXnID2ZU
WELL ... EASY COME EASY GO FOR SOME FOLKS' $500K:
http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/barge-sinks-ruins-500-000-rapa-nui-artificial-reef-video-7029324
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