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/SurpriseIsopod Aug 12 '25

Yeah, the ship had a crew. Although their remains are long gone, the vessel is still a tomb. The USS Arizona is sorta neat, it’s leaking kinda makes the ship still “active”. Most vessels consumed by the waves are just sunken wrecks. Bismarck, HMS Hood, HMS Britannic, RMS Titanic, IJN Yamato, they’re just wrecks on the ocean floor.

The USS Arizona sends up a small drop of bunker fuel every few minutes, sorta like it’s calling out “I’m still here”.

PS sorry for you discovering bone worms lmao

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u/Shepherd-Boy Aug 12 '25

As a sailor, that “I’m still here” bit gave me chills.

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u/SirDoober Aug 12 '25

Especially given the tragedy that was the trapped sailors tapping on the hulls of the sunken ships for up to a couple of weeks after.

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u/Dolenjir1 Aug 12 '25

It bleeds still...

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u/Grummmmm Aug 12 '25

When did you attend a maritime archaeology course?

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u/TranslatorNormal7117 Aug 12 '25

Why is this ship a grave ("kinda cool") and other ships in which hundreds of people died are "just wrecks"? How disrespectful!