Escape the Mothball Fleet Experience + General Admission

Picture it. The year is 2011. After a decade of work, the US Navy has just awarded you custody of the last of its great battleships - USS Iowa.

But there's a catch.

She's been languishing in the Suisun Bay Naval Reserve Fleet - known colloquially as the "ghost fleet" - for ten years, and she's been "mothballed" - closed up, sealed up, and in indefinite storage - for a total of twenty. She's hot, stinky, and claustrophobic inside.

The Navy has a checklist you have to fill out in order to be allowed to tow her. It's 158 items long. Because no one knows where they are, you have to search the ship from top to bottom to locate them.

To make the task of finding them even more difficult, the ship has no power, so everything is dark; you have to negotiate it by flashlight.

If that's not enough, you have an insanely tight window to move her. There are only two days on which the water in the bay will be deep enough for her to float, yet still shallow enough for her to get under a bridge that was built after she was anchored. That date is a mere six weeks away.

If you can't get her out, it's highly likely she may never leave, and even be scrapped.

Can you do it? Can you save this engineering marvel and historical treasure?

The circumstances above are a true story. We actually did everything described in order to bring Battleship IOWA to Los Angeles. Now we've reimagined a very abbreviated version of that challenge for you to experience.

Part escape room, part scavenger hunt, all fun, Escape The Mothball Fleet is the newest in our add-on tours menu, but it's not like any other offering we have. For this one, you guide yourself (with supervision), and search for rarely-seen spaces not open on any other tour.

Due to the confined spaces through which this "tour" passes, it is limited in group size and availability. Escape The Mothball Fleet will accommodate up to six (6) participants ages sixteen (16) and up. Minors under the age of eighteen (18) must be accompanied by an adult- one for each minor.

Guests are required to wear closed-toed footwear in order to negotiate the ladders (staircases) and grated decking that will take them to unique, rarely-seen spaces on board. This experience is not recommended for those with physical conditions that may impair their abilities to climb stairs or stand for prolonged periods of time.

The tour lasts approximately two (2) hours.

Think you have what it takes to "save" IOWA? Come ESCAPE THE MOTHBALL FLEET!