{"id":7170,"date":"2016-12-14T08:20:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2016-12-14T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:20:02","slug":"uss-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/14\/uss-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archaeology Magazine’s<\/strong><\/em> Samir Patel investigates<\/a> the status of the wreck of the USS Arizona<\/em> in Pearl Harbor. I didn’t know this about its fuel tanks:<\/p>\n

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National Park Service\/eTrac ROV via Archaeology.org<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWhat we learned is that, yes, Arizona<\/em> is corroding. Yes, Arizona<\/em> is rusting. And yes, Arizona<\/em> is changing,\u201d says Conlin, \u201cbut it\u2019s changing very, very slowly, and the best science that we have tells us that Arizona<\/em> will still have significant structural integrity for at least another 150 years.\u201d The risk of a catastrophic spill is low, he adds. Battleships don\u2019t hold oil in a single tank, but in hundreds of cells. A recent SRC study found that, of the several places where oil emerges from the wreck, only one appears to be closely connected to a fuel storage area. The rest of the leaking oil follows a circuitous path through interior spaces, which suggests that it is distributed around the ship. Furthermore, it is thought that the oil inside inhibits the degradation of the metal and provides a buoyant force for its structure. And there\u2019s no way to remove the oil without deeply impacting or damaging a war grave. \u201cWe are getting smarter about how we can understand Arizona<\/em>,\u201d Conlin says, \u201cand also how we can manage Arizona<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

USS Arizona Memorial. Source: National Park Service<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

I wonder if that applies to other types of ships sunk during World War II – and since then. However, wrecks may contain other potential disastrous materials, as noted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archaeology Magazine’s Samir Patel investigates the status of the wreck of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor. I didn’t know this about its fuel tanks: \u201cWhat we learned is that, yes, Arizona is corroding. Yes, Arizona is rusting. And yes, Arizona is changing,\u201d says Conlin, \u201cbut it\u2019s changing very, very \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7171,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions\/7171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}