USS Arizona Underwater: What Park Service Divers See on the Wreck Today

What do Park Service divers see on the USS Arizona wreck today? In this documentary we follow National Park Service divers and ROV surveys down to the wreck in Pearl Harbor and see what they found, and why oil still reaches the harbor decades after the ship sank. The Arizona was 608 feet long; 1,177 of its 1,512 crew were killed. NPS estimates about half a million gallons of oil remain in the stern, while press reports cite up to 600,000 gallons. By the end you will know how divers document the wreck, why they stay outside, and what the oil studies and low visibility reveal. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:47 40 feet: Pearl Harbor and the wreck’s scale 1:49 40 feet: Visibility and outside surveys 2:15 40 feet: ROVs and the ship’s boundary 3:16 40 feet: Oil droplets and the remaining estimate 3:27 1914–1916: Arizona is built 4:08 December 7, 1941: The attack and the loss 4:36 1943–1962: The memorial takes shape 5:53 600 feet: NPS surveys the wreck 6:59 2009–2016: Stereo cameras and ROV investigations 9:23 3–5 feet: What divers can see 9:57 25–30 feet: Clearer days 11:05 Close survey: Objects on the wreck 12:42 400 feet: Life on the hull Footage: NOAA Ocean Exploration and other public archives. Additional footage: Ifremer, CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Figures come from expedition reports and published papers; where sources disagree, the video says so. #deepsea #oceanexploration #USSNArizona #PearlHarbor #shipwreck