Thoughts for the day -- Pearl Harbor

Zaphod
Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:18:12 +0000

Besides the landfill problem at the visitors center a more critical issue may be dealing with the ships leaking bunker fuel oil.



The flip side of that is that the fuel oil is actually helping to hold up the wreck. The seeping oil is resulting in more and more stress being put on the corroded hull of the ship, so we have a snowball effect. You can’t take the oil out or the wreck will collapse. If the wreck collapses, the oil will REALLY come out.

It’s eerie, though, to see the ship still bleeding 65 years later. :(