The National Park Service (NPS) maintains a division
known at the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). NPS and National Geographic photographers recently
obtained video footage of the interior of the sunken battleship USS Arizona resting at the bottom of
Pearl Harbor for 75 years. Out of
respect for the dead - divers are not allowed to enter the wreck so a Remotely
Operated Vehicle (ROV) was used to study and document the interior first and
second decks of the 608-foot long battleship.
Because oxygen levels drop
precipitously with depth researchers now know that preservation of artifacts
may be enhanced in the lower decks of the Arizona. Next will be to explore the third deck. When that happens the NPS will learn more
about how to preserve, protect and interpret the Arizona for future generations.
Watch the video and view more at the link and you’ll be witness to a chilling find – a
jacket hanging in an officer’s quarters that was clean, uncovered in sediment
and hadn’t fallen from the hanger.
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