From 1972 until the closing of the New Jersey Naval Museum, the Museum had paid one dollar per year to rent its riverside site for "Ling". In January 2007, the North Jersey Media Group, owner of the site, informed the museum that the site was going to be sold for redevelopment within the year and that the museum and submarine would need to be relocated. As of September 2013 the museum itself was closed due to damage in 2012 from Hurricane Sandy. The museum closed again for emergency repairs in late July, 2015. The museum was expected to vacate the property in August 2018. Sometime in mid-August of 2018, the hull of the USS Ling rusted through flooding the ship with several feet of brackish water. It was originally believed to have been sunk by vandals but this proved to be false once efforts were made to re-float her. The USS Ling is being worked on by a new group of volunteers. She has had the hull breaches repaired and is again floating upright in the Hackensack River. Her final destination is yet unknown as the original plans have fallen through. There are no plans to allow the USS Ling to be scrapped or to be allowed to deteriorate further. Efforts are being made to find a new home for her. The swing bridge below her on the river is functional and is no longer an issue to moving her.