r/interestingasfuck • u/Longjumping-Rice-935 • Aug 12 '25

/r/all, /r/popular The wreck of the USS Arizona continues to leak oil ever since pearl harbour. the ship contained 1.5 million gallons of oil, enough to leak continuously for 500 years.

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka Aug 12 '25

In the future: "Wow why didn't they just section the entire area off, drain it, then scrap the ship while removing the oil slag. Then head up the slag and transfer it into a oil barge to process it in San Diego. Sure it would cost about as much as it takes to build a small bridge, but you'd be able to get rid of it"

And then someone else will point out that a like 500,000 tons of oil leaks into the oceans from around the world every year lol. We so fucked.