What's Still Inside the USS Arizona?

85 years after Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona still lies where she sank. Her forward guns are still aboard, her fuel still rises to the surface, and more than 900 of her crew never left. This is a deck-by-deck tour of the wreck, from stern to bow, built from National Park Service and U.S. Navy dive footage, the NPS survey drawings, and 3D reconstructions. Correction: in one 3D cutaway the highlighted impact area is drawn too far aft, near the stern. The fatal bomb struck forward, near turret No. 2 on the starboard side, and set off the forward magazines, as the narration states. Thanks to the viewer who caught it. Chapters 0:00 What is still inside? 1:39 Dec 7, 1941 and the 1942 salvage 3:09 The stern: a ship still settling 5:14 Turret 4: where the survivors came back 7:06 Under the memorial 9:04 The galley and the Coke bottle 10:06 Inside the ship: the 2016 ROV survey 12:23 The black tears: her oil 14:08 Turret 2 and the blast zone 16:04 Turret 1: the forgotten guns 16:57 The bow 18:01 The men still aboard Next: the USS Oklahoma, the battleship that rolled over, was raised, and sank again on her way home. Footage and images National Park Service, Pearl Harbor National Memorial / Submerged Resources Center: underwater live dives and ROV interior survey U.S. Navy, U.S. Army 7th Engineer Dive Detachment, MDSU-1 and DVIDS (dvidshub.net): interments, surveys and memorial b-roll Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC): 1941–1943 photographs Library of Congress, HAER HI-96 / NPS drawings of the wreck 3D model: "USS Arizona" by martyn169 (Sketchfab, CC BY 4.0), modified to the wreck's documented condition. 3D shots are illustrations, labelled on screen. Music: "Red Shift" – The Grey Room / Density & Time (YouTube Audio Library) Main sources NPS: Underwater at the USS Arizona; USS Arizona interments list D. Lenihan et al., Submerged Cultural Resources Study: USS Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor NHL (NPS, 1989) NHHC: USS Arizona (BB-39) wreck site; Wallin, Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2013-5096 (settlement of the hull) Radović, Reddy et al., Marine Pollution Bulletin (2025), oil chemistry of the Arizona leaks Military Times / Stars and Stripes (Oct 2026): DPAA disinterment of the Arizona unknowns The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement. #USSArizona #PearlHarbor #WW2