PEARL HARBOR - INTO THE ARIZONA | Sunken Relics Revealed | PBS
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Brett Seymour of the National Parks Service dives to the surface of the sunken USS Arizona. PEARL HARBOR - INTO THE ARIZONA premieres Wednesday, Nov 23.
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My great uncle-in-law was one of the men trapped in this ship. His brother was a WW2 vet and a great man, he just passed this month. Hopefully they are together again. RIP
RIP
RIP
RIP
I am sure they are together.
RIP
All those years passed and some objects still in same position for 79 years wow
80 years 😂
@@Gh0st5519__ it will 80 years this coming December
@@robertyoung3992 cap
@@Gh0st5519__ please explain to me what makes you think 1941 was not 80 years ago
I dove on the Arizona back in 1965, (I think). We escorted a local news paper reporter down to get some shots for his paper article due on Dec. 7 of that year. It was an interesting dive but had limited visibility. The marine growth was far less and we were not allowed inside. I still have the finished article stored in my garage buried behind some junk. Seeing your article brought back fond memories.
Why can’t anyone go inside? Is it because there are bones?
@@GOTDRAGONSit’s because it’s a tomb…. Fallen sailors who died unexpectedly because of the Japanese. Arizona is a grave for those men
I remember meeting an elderly gentleman on a tour in Hawaii and he told us the story of when he was a boy walking to school on that eventful day. He saw the Japanese planes flying over the island and then turn round to begin the attack. Bless him, he had tears in his eyes..bless them all ..
They had school on Sunday?
@@paulsimonich5680 might've been Sunday school at church
I remember that man, his story still lingers in my mind when I toured the site myself 3-4 years ago
December 7, 2022 today and this came into my feed. Rest easy, brave ones. Your sacrifice was not in vain and will never be forgotten. Thank you.
To a beautiful lady of the seas, may you and the brave ones inside rest in peace. The war is long over but we must never forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
To the 900 still inside her may God rest your souls. Thanks to all veterans.
Thank you for that. We don't get enough of those kind words.
John Schmidt Such a kind, thoughtful comment. I share your sentiment. Thank you for posting. 💕 ~Loving Daughter & GodDaughter of amazing WW2 Veterans, USAAC
RIP 💕🙏💕
Well said
Those words words inflict more damage than any gun
The families of those sailors had to live with their lost sailors never coming home, yet knowing they were on the ship. I can’t imagine.
USS WEST VIRGINIA, sunk at Pearl Harbor 07 December, 1941. Raised, refurbished, and was at the surrender at Tokyo Bay. My dad, Jimmie Frank Glasscock was there having joined the US Navy early 1945 as a 17 year old young man.
Remember Pearl Harbor Sunday December 7,1941
Am I the only one that is glad the ship has become a coral reef . I find it strangely beautiful.
Not me, its a shame really and soon this history will be lost to time and the elements..
@@ShutUpBubi as is everything eventually.
I'm actually pretty bummed about it because the ship is going to leak a decent amount of oil for the next 500 years and all those creatures are exposed to it.
I cried a lot after i watched pearl harbor movie....... Especially Arizona sunk scene...... 😞😞😞😞😞 love from india.... 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
“A mere shadow of her former self” nah y’all, she’s still stunning and is far from a shadow as ever
Been there. It"s a very sad, powerful reminder of the.price of freedom
Never forget.
The Japanese Never Invaded USA for it to have been enslaved for freedom but okay.
Im hopefully going to Hawaii next year and seeing the Arizona and paying my respect for those who was lost
AMEN
@@murtazalehri
The Japanese invaded two of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, which is US soil. It took almost a year to get rid of them. Conditions were brutal for both sides, but the Japanese soldiers had it considerably worse. And most of them fought to the death.
I was there in the early 2000's. I remember still seeing oil coming up out of the ship.
It was a very deep experience... There are still many dead down below,& nobody's allowed to make noise in there, other than a whisper. There were many WW11 vets volunteering there but not many left now 🙁
The survivors say she will continue to leak oil till the last survivor dies.
called the Tears of the Arizona
I was there last year in 2021 and I can say there is still oil coming up it's insane and sad
@@jayc574 it leaks 9 quarts of oil a day
2023 and oil still leaks out. They said it would take years before the oil stops
Bonjour c’est un honneur de voir un monument pour ces braves qui ont perdu la vie , nous vous oublions pas pour notre liberté grâce à votre courage , reposez en paix , que dieux vous bénisse France 🇫🇷 merci au USA et nos alliés
Heartbreaking to think of how many of our soldiers lost their lives that day.
The battle for Pearl was the first and only battle this ship ever saw and it became a legend
RIP Kermit Stallings. My grandfather's brother🇺🇸🇺🇸 you would be proud your country avenged your passing
Imagine all the bones and skeletons in the engine room and berthings
Michael Mourey Jr all in the hull. That shit crazy
Michael Mourey Jr Some of those Sailors survived for days trapped underwater (they heard banging and screams) but they just left them down there...
WeBe Flexin Why???
Sayuru Hansasara That’s the fucked up part, I have no ideas why they would turn their back on hundreds of trapped sailors...
WeBe Flexin They didn't have the proper equipment back then to reach them. Underwater technology wasn't very good back then other than U-boats.
28 brave men from my home state of Iowa now rest inside her alongside their fellow shipmates. Most were between the ages of 19-23.
My Great Uncle Franklin VanVaulkenburg was Captain of USS ARIZONA. He is still down there. Highly decorated Sailor as well. I dont mind the education. In my opinion..no soul is there. They're in limbo awaiting to be risin on judgement day..as all past dead.
Chris Brown there is no god
@@GoatThroatGoblin Keep your beliefs to yourself
Nedko Genov it’s UA-cam. It’s all about one’s belief
@@GoatThroatGoblin feel better?
@@GoatThroatGoblin i don't believe either but let others believe what ever they want!
Got a chance to see it as a teen back in early 90's. The quietest place in a crowd I've ever been. Made my hair stand up , emotional thnkn of all the lost, and mad all at same time. Amazing how it's still leakn oil too. Thank you to armed forces for continuing to keep us safe
Crazy to think the story behind that fork..
Ok Xack honestly your right like who used it and how long it had been on the ship
That would be a hard place for me to visit without swallowing alot of tears.
It was for me
I just saw this memorial. It amazes me that these young men were willing to serve their country so selflessly. This was truly the greatest generation!
My third grade teachers son was assigned as a bridge officer on the USS Arizona. She was proud of her boy, Ensign G.A. Smith.
you want to reread this?
Today is December 7th and it makes me sad thinking about it. My teachers great uncle was suppose to be on the ship and before it went off he went to dinner with his friend on a motorcycle. When they were coming back they got in a wreck. My teachers uncle broke his leg and had to go to the hospital while his friend was ok. It wasn't a severe accident. Her uncle heard what happened to the ship and was telling himself he should be dead and he's lucky to be alive and he wishes that he was there with everyone. He's saying that he should've died and he didn't.
MaKayla Layton I'm sorry for your loss
eaa..this person's (the teacher of this person) uncle actually avoided death by luck so there is no "loss" maybe a little guilt for not being there..
I've bin to pearl harbor last september. It was very beautiful to see to remains of the Arizona and the memorial and the people who spoke, who where bin there all those years ago.
*been
Remember Pearl Harbor ladies and gentlemen
My grandmother's brother was on the uss Arizona, and still remains there
*2:09 am Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, 1 January 2020*
I recently read a book about the attack. Written by a survivor of the USS Arizona explosion. He described the waiting for the bomb to explode second by second, his thoughts and the facts about how much oil, gunpowder, and other munitions were stored below. 7 seconds went by and after those, it blew up three times. The first time was small, the second enough to incinerate men, and the last enough to blow the ship in half, throw hundreds of body parts everywhere (including Ford Island), throw flames onto the USS Vestal (killing men onboard both ships), and incinerate men into nothing but ash. The description of the events was truly horrifying.
Jesus Christ I didn't know the sailors WATCHED the bomb go into the hatch and have to stand there and wait. That and the 3 separate explosions makes it even more grim than it is to me.
My great uncle served the whole war on the USS Enterprise which left petal harbor a day before the attack.
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This is sad and eerie
вечная память!!!
Amazing how shallow of water all these men were in either blown up burned and or died from smoke or trapped so close to shore
Never forget
Thank You Men and Women for your service on this anniversary of the worst day in American history.
I went to Hawaii and went to Pearl Harbor it was sad but very interesting really recommend it!
Two of those men were my second cousins, the O'Bryan's.
Encouraçado uss Arizona
It’s Hollowed ground .I felt the same way inside the Alamo
JOHNSON, David Andrew Jr.
OC2c USN Virginia
Rest in Peace Uncle David
That is a grave. It should not be disturbed under any circumstances.
It's not over a 1000 sailors are still in it.
During the end times, during the Great Judgment, the sea will give up the dead who are in it, and Death and Hades will deliverer the dead who were in them. And they will all be judged in front of the Great White Throne. Anyone who is not found in the Book of Life shall be casted in the lake of fire. (Rev. 20:5, 12-15)
I saw it when I went to Pearl Harbor very moving it is deteriorating for sure
R.I.P
And no diver is allowed inside!
Next video: Inside the Arizona!
Haha
the National Park Service is allowed
I wanted to go there when I was in HI in 2018 but the Memorial was closed for repairs.
How much of the things like boots, cups even a coke bottle were actually not from the Arizona but from the work barges when they were stripping her for salvageable parts. Also work was still being done in 1945 to remove exposed wreckage .
If you ever look at a model of what she looks like underwater, right past the bow it looks like she got pinched, of course that was from the explosion
The is a underwater cemetery
My buddies dad was assigned to the Arizona. He was in the brig on shore that morning for being involved in a drunken brawl the night before. He always said he wouldn’t be here if his dad wasn’t a drunken sailer.
It is a war grave and leave them alone no one knows anything except for family that has gone through it leave them alone it deteriorates that's what's going to happen
I have family who served in WWII and who died in the US Japanese Concentration Camps. I'm very disappointed that this National monument is closed. I've bee saving to visit Hawaii and Japan.
Im sorry you werent able to go. I was abke to visit it and honestly they did an amazing job on the inside to preserve the memory of those lost
It's not closed. They only close it to visitors during diving operations, inclement weather, and for burial ceremonies of USS Arizona veterans.
@@therealtracyduh it was closed for repairs as the memorial developed massive cracks
@@robertyoung3992 Yes, that is included in "diving operations." This came straight from the memorial's site. And I was stationed there.
Great
Surprised that the big gun barrels were not recovered as on other Battleships at Pearl.
jaddy540 the aft main gun turrets were removed and installed as artillery defense on the island of Oahu at kahe point and where the current marine base is now. The guns from turret 2 were salvaged and installed on the battleship Nevada. The Nevada participated in bombardments on Okinawa and Iwo Jima, firing Arizona’s guns.
jaddy540 anything that was not saved was to badly damaged to be salvaged
I thought all the barrels had been removed also, odd you cant see them in Ariel photos of the memorial. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_(BB-39)#/media/File:USS_Arizona_Memorial_(aerial_view).jpg
Well they didn't remove the turret so that it could symboliz that she was a mighty battleship
@@olddays2253 that had no consideration in the months after the Pearl Harbor attack. If she had parts that could have benefited to the war effort the Navy was pulling them with little question. I suspect they didn’t pull the number 1 turret or even the guns is given the explosion likely wrecked both rendering recovery/salvage a wasted effort so they just left them.
Just curious why no is allowed inside. Went to this memorial recently.
Emocionante !!! Ojala algún día encuentre el Crucero Gral Belgrano ex Phoenix hundido en la guerra de Malvinas .
Exciting !!! Hopefully one day I will find the Crucero Gral Belgrano ex Phoenix sunk in the Falklands War.
I wonder how deep the water is
@cantr58 oh cool.
The rifling on the guns are all gone.
Why did the cut off the top portions ?
For scrap metal, for removal from the harbor, to clear a navigation hazard. There were plenty of reasons.
The guns were used on other ships.
March 11, 2022, still oil seeping to the top of water.
Yes, it leaks about 9 quarts a day and will be leaking for about 500 years.
The sailors remain are still there right ?
not a chance. with the high salt levels and calcium in the water. not to mention what aqua live fed on them. they would of dissolved (including bone) in about 5 years. statistics tho. in reality who knows.
Thanks for the info 😊😊
Sabinal yes the sailers remain there
There may be some bones left but not much more
Dedicated to the U.S.S Arizona BB-39 (1915 - 1941)
Wreckage must have affected people wasn’t scrapped above water for years
Im pretty sure it was 1177 men died on the Arizona alone, almost a thousand more died abord the other ships and at the airfields, including 49 civilians hit by stray bullets.
Ive seen it twice its very sad i got a lot of great pictures of it from a helicopter
Show me more
DId you say that these weapons were capeble of YEETING a 1500pound projectiel miles in to the air
If your heart doesn’t hurt and a tear doesn’t form in your eye, then you are not an American patriot. Never again!
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Rodn
Algum brasileiro aí?
December 7th
My Great Uncle died their my Grandmother's brother
My relative the late JESSIE H GURLEY SK3C died in action on the USS ARIZONA on Sunday 7 December 1941 🕊️🇺🇸✝️🕊️
I remember being there and was like “why don’t they go scuba diving in there?”
It's because it's to dangerous to go inside her because she could collapse w'ill your inside
Famous lookings in honolul
still leaking oil
No the guns didn't "heave" the projectile...the powder bags did.....the guns guided them
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Can't they do something about the leaking oil and fuel?
That would be fun To have the uss Arizona on the ocean
is that oil from the ship still leaking?
Yes it is still leaking today. Crazy to think it's been leaking since that day on December 7th.
@@marlonisaac1 Yes ,it is you said exactly what I was gonna say &now its Nov.14-2019&oil still leaking out.
There is a belief among sailors, that the oil will stop leaking once the last survivor of the ship passes away. Not sure how many are left though, sadly gets fewer each year.
@@Ro6entX what are you talking about? they all died that day.
@@walkercordell3030 there's still 2 survivors left actually (both 98 years old), not everyone on the ship died that day, some were able to make it out alive.
On a lighter note, that water pitcher had a lot of water in it...
why did this make me laugh lol
A fork.
Me: *Interesting*
Why did it take this long to send divers? Have any of the remains of the dead, been recovered, after the war in 1941? Can anyone please reply...please
What are you talking about? Did you search on this before asking? Divers have been regularly inspecting the ship since 1942. The ship was hit by a 1,760-pound projectile. The entire front portion was destroyed and the fires burned everything in its path, cremating 1177 men. The fires continued for 2½ days. Proper inspection didn't take place for a few months (remember we were now at war, manpower and resources were scarce). Inspection discovered that access to the front portion of the ship was completely blocked by debris and great sheets of metal grotesquely twisted there made a very unsafe environment. The second deck had collapsed and virtually melted into the lower decks. Some bodies were recovered, but 900 could not be. The ship is their final resting place and is designated as a military gravesite. Of the bodies they were able to get out, 107 were identified. The rest were severely dismembered or partially cremated, making identification impossible (no DNA testing in 1941), so they were buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific as unknowns. Also the surviving Arizona crewmen are given the option of being interred in the sunken battleship. Many of them have chosen to have their ashes spread over the site or have their urn lowered into the ship when they die so they can return to their ship and their brothers. I was stationed on Hickam AFB twice in my career and have visited the memorial several times. It's a very moving experience. There is a wall with the names of the sailors engraved on it there. The memorial is free to the public.
After the attack we were in war with no fleet what so ever so resources were very scarce...
Some bodies were recovered but it was determined given the severe damage near the bow section, as well as the diving suits, the risk to divers was too great and the decision was reached to leave the remaining crew inside the ship.
@@shotgunpipe_465 we still had the carriers
There is a after action report by the Navy written after the war, it tells of all the salvage work. It is a excellent book, and shows the turning over of the Oklahoma, and the salvage and recovery work done on the Arizona. They built a cofferdam around her, and men went inside of her to do recovery and salvage work. It does not speak to it, but I am sure many had nightmares for years.@@therealtracyduh
The story of Pearl Harbor always moved me deep. But I never understood why treating the ship as a grave instead of taking the remains. The ship is the place those poor men suffered and die, I would think there is peace to be found elsewhere?
Well that's usually how it goes and when survivors of the ship die they can be bured in the ship with them
Maritime tradition to get buried at sea, especially during war time when ships may not have the facilities or resources to store the body or fly it to shore
@@ey7290 It makes sense sadly
when the ship went down it was nearly impossible to recover the bodies mainly because of how dismembered they were or burnt up, they also didnt have the diving equipment and ID for the body recovery. They decided to make a it a war grave since it was nearly impossible to recover over 1,100+ people on board
@@froot6086 True. During the recovery of the other ships the smell, they did had to remove all the remains. It clearing out the ships was a horrible mess of damaged equipment, debris and an horrific smell of decaying foodstuffs mixed with the the unfortunate casualties that where not able to evacuate the ships. The youtube channel Drachinifel has an amazing three episode long series on the recovery of the Pearl Harbor ships.
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Divers go inside practically every other wreck there is. 1,517 people died (roughly 400 more than on the USS Arizona) on the RMS Titanic, but people still go freely in and around her wreck. I think it's a bad choice in the long-run not to excavate and explore the Arizona's present condition on the inside if you guys really want to keep the thing in your harbour. Like, it's still spewing out oil and fuel. Perhaps something should be done about that? I don't know, I'm not an american.
the difference between titanic and arizona is simple that anyone with common sense would know this which you lack.. titanic WAS a PUBLIC ship so no restrictions really but its also 15k below sea level.. arizona IS n will still be a NAVY ship and unless the navy outright says people can go inside.. the navy has juristiction to it. just like uss iowa the navy has her as a memorial ship but could easily tak her back n reinstateh er for active duty after a retro fit.. so until the navy gives away the ship like uss texas to the state of arizona(which it will never do) navy says no one allowed in.. no one goes in..
Yeah, it's the navy's property. But the navy can't suddenly start using the Arizona for war efforts, like they could do with the Iowa. Arizona serves no purpose other than being a cemetary - a environmentally dangerous one.
The point I was trying to make is that as far as I knew when writing that comment one month ago, the only restriction I knew of was the fact that a lot of people had died there. Lots of people have died in other wrecks too, many times with far more casualties than during the sinking of the Arizona.
But as you argue for the fact that only the navy is in the way of looking for methods of preservation or containment of the dangerous chemicals leaking from it's hull, I wonder why the navy doesn't do anything about it? There's a universal denial of the global warming in the U.S. of A., I know, but why doesn't the navy even consider the possibilities?
its lower decks are all submerged below the sealevel.. where all the oil remaining is store navy known about it since it sank.. the best they can do is collect it as it surfaces n when it surfaces because there is nothign they can do without disturbing the war cemetary its not about glboal warming never has been.. also arizona was to never sail again it was that far gone alot of the ships sunk during perl harbor were repurposed for other ships using theiir scrap to repair other ships arizona is one ofthose ships that was sunk unable to be salvaged or brought up n repaired it was that bad compared to others..
The national parks service has been monitoring the oil spillage and it has not had any large effects on the ecosystem and the most of the oil is a thin film on the surface and there isn't any effective way to get that off. It leaks about 2 pints a day so spewing doesn't have the right meaning. (sorry I am being picky)
over 1100 people died in the ship where in other shipwrecks they died in the water like titanic. The ship is considered a cemetery so disrupting the actual ship the way they would need to in order to clean up would be like digging up a grave. If a grave is over a hundred years old is different from when it is less than 100 years old.
Everyone has different opinions and yours is a good one as may others...very interesting but common view and yours as everyone elses is worth hearing. Its just too bad you had to act like a childish expert on the subject and most of all be a dink about it!!!
~oz~
All those items should be save before they are gone for ever!
1177 people trapped inside
They need to raise it and fix it.
You can't, it was written off by the Navy in 1942. She cannot be raised.
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Probably something worth quite a bit in there. Can’t believe it hasn’t been raided yet.
the Navy won't permit it,they still retain the Arizona name and her ruins are on an active US Navy Base
Japan army attack pearl harbour at 7 december,at 8 december japan conquered Malaysia
Why dont they build a wall around the ship to stop the decaying of the ship
How will that stop the decay...its still exposed to the elements.
To this day she still leaks oil as if she were bleeding
The Tears of the Arizona
The locals say the ship is crying.
No.