USS Arizona was a battleship built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state, she was the second and last ship in the Pennsylvania class. On 7 December 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and Arizona was hit by several air-dropped armor-piercing bombs. One detonated an explosive-filled magazine, sinking the battleship and killing 1,177 of its officers and crewmen. Unlike many of the other ships attacked that day, Arizona was so irreparably damaged that it was not repaired for service in World War II. The shipwreck still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor beneath the USS Arizona Memorial.[1]
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The USS Arizona is featured in Armed & Defenseless as a minor exploration.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
It was explored in 70 years after people when the show knows that the USS Missouri is deteriorating faster above the waterline than below because of the ruins of the USS Arizona that sank nearly 70 years during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. After decades underwater have let the exposed parts of the Arizona to become heavily rusted but the hull has been preserved below the waterline by an army of multi-colored sponges, feather worms, and corals. Matthew Russel stated that the encrustation covers the ship which protects the ship from corrosion by slowing it down much lower.
Marine life at the USS Arizona.
While marine life forms a protective layer on the Arizona's steel hull, the ship's wooden deck is covered with a layer of silt and sediment that offers its own protection. Matthew Russel stated that the wood-boring organism that normally deteriorated the deck have been kept out and the teak decks are very well preserved. He continues that if one brush away the silt, it will be smooth, hard, and look like it did on December 7, 1941 when the sailors were walking the decks. After it sank 70 years ago, it was estimated that 500,000 gallons of oil still held inside of Arizona, much of it trapped in the ship's fuel tanks and submerged compartments. Everyday, up to 9 quarts of oil leak from the ship which then continuing to drift to the surface like a slowly bleeding wound.
It was briefly mentioned again in 250 years after people in order to answer how long will the hull of the USS Missouri remain intact. The answer was from the tests conducted on the USS Arizona in 2008 and 2009 where its hull will take another 300 years to fully deteriorate where the USS Missouri built nearly 30 years later would last 20,000 years estimated by engineers.
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