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Must take a lot of care to ensure there’s nothing left on the airframe that can ultimately decompose and contaminate the environment, I’d have thought.
Watched a program on TV a while back about the 737 they sank off Vancouver Island, and the aircraft prep work took months for just that reason.
There is an area off Waikiki in Hawaii where they've sunk some old ships and aircraft roughly 30 meters deep that you can go see in a (tourist) submarine (I did that with my wife a few years ago). They said it costs a fortune to prepare the ships and such for sinking to meet all the environmental rules and regulations.
One would hope that they take similar care in other parts of the world, but I'm not optimistic that's the case.