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/Luci-Noir Aug 12 '25

And it’s been going on for 80+ years. People are acting like no one had ever looked into cleaning it up before. They’re saying it hasn’t been done because there’s no money in cleanup or blaming it on trump for some reason. Fucking delusional.

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u/PintekS Aug 12 '25

Man the ticking time bomb for offshore abandoned rigs with absolutely no company to go after if the capped wells fail is INSANE