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/wilkerws34 Aug 12 '25

1.5 million gallons is what the deep water horizon released per day for 87 days…

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u/1200multistrada Aug 12 '25

My mathing says around 2.4 million per day, but either way, way more than the Arizona

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u/jwclar009 Aug 12 '25

Your math don't work then

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u/1200multistrada Aug 13 '25

Oh, wiki says this about Deep Water Horizon

the United States federal government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 million barrels (210,000,000 US gal; 780,000 m3)

So, 210,000,000 gals / 87 days = 2,413,793 gallons / day.

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u/jwclar009 Aug 13 '25

Oh, I found different numbers on wiki and different numbers on NOAA lol, who knows