Oil spots on the water above the wreckage of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor. Photo: Jeremy Duda/Axios
I recently had the privilege of visiting the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor during a trip to Hawaii and got to see a particularly interesting feature I only recently learned about.
Flashback: When a Japanese bomb hit a forward magazine on the Arizona, the ship went down loaded with nearly 1.5 million gallons of fuel oil.
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.
