Even after its -premature- retirement new missions were found for the able A-6. In 1995 a plan was hatched to dump some Intruder carcasses off St. Augustine (Florida) in order to create cheap artificial reefs to provide environmental and economic boost for that area.
Carrier aircraft to the very end.
Aviation Rapture 
No! Don’t go breaking my heart!
Not their worst possible fate, but….
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