It still slowly leaks oil into pearl harbor all these years later. When it wasn’t constantly leaking into the water, it held about 1.5 million gallons of oil, but the oil tank was hit in the attacks The uss arizona oil leak was on fire for two days after the attack, but is the ship in pearl harbor still leaking oil after all this time?the answer is yes. Research from 2018 found approximately 79,000 gallons of fuel oil still trapped inside the arizona At 2.25 gallons per day, simple division suggests the ship could leak for another 96 years. The uss arizona and uss utah have leaked thousands of gallons of oil in pearl harbor since the 1941 attack and there’s no plan to stop the flow anytime soon.
The uss arizona had refueled nearly 1,500 gallons of oil the day before it was struck and sank, a location where the memorial exists today. Up to 9 quarts of oil still leak to the water's surface each day That creates multicolored oil spots that appear on the water and are visible from the side of the memorial in pearl harbor The phenomenon is known as the black tears of the uss arizona. The uss arizona's eternal leak
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