When the Title says "Scanning the USS Arizona in 3D"... and you don't even see the Arizona Once. Just a Coke bottle and a pot that were on the decks... the decks that we didn't even get to see either.
This is true; much of the video's demo images appears to be the underwater view of an old airplane. We get it, you have some cool tech; we were hoping to see some images of the Arizona.
I've wondered if that Coke bottle was thrown on The Arizona years after the sinking and is actually just trash or if it was really used by the crew of The Arizona.
It's hard to say. There were salvage operations going on after the attack and it's very possible the bottle was tossed in after a work break. In those days and weeks after the attack the job of clearing the harbor and salvaging what could be saved was more important. The Arizona was left alone after useful gear had been removed and it was determined that the site was too dangerous to retrieve bodies or anything else.
It was definitly an artificial addition to the ship, seeing that the USS Arizonas Soda fountain was along frame 52 port side of the conning tower on the main deck. As far as i know, there were no drinks served in the crews mess in the form of glass coke bottles.
Imagine what the pop bottle would have had to have gone through, to still be there. It would have had to have been placed out in the open, on the ship. Survived the attack. Survived the sinking. And never rolled off the deck. It was probably dropped off in 1942 or 1943, during the salvage job done on the ship. Maybe a sailor in remembrance of a friend lost on the ship, who loved the beverage. In memory of a lost friend. Not such a bad thing to do.
You’d think if it hit the bottom, it would’ve been close to the explosion. But idk, it would’ve shattered probably anywhere near the Arizona simply due to the giant explosion.
Imagine what cool items are still in the Arizona untouched for decades like unopened bottles of sodas and other items in watertight containers waiting to be opened and are perfectly preserved
They sent in a ROV, and found all kinds of neat stuff, most notably, an officer's uniform still hanging in the clothset, and the fact that the Admiral (the Arizona was the flagship) had an actual brick fireplace installed in his quarters that nobody knew about. The stern section, known as "Officer Land" is remarkably well intact, although there is 3 feet of sediment everywhere, so any remains, if there still are any, are burried. They even found the "ladies room", the one female designated "head" in the ship for the officer's girfriends, if they should decide to visit the ship, believe it or not. When I was in the Army in Germany, I was in a brigade HHQ, and we were the only ones on our base who could have female visitors, not because we were in HHC, but because the second floor of our barracks had once been the base medical center, and it still had a female designated bathroom, the only one on our base. But everyones GF's just used ours, they didn't care if they saw us with our junk out. Go figure.
Sadly, the Edmund Fitzgerald will never be visited again by divers. The site is regarded as a memorial to those lost, so there are laws protecting the wreck.
Which magazine blew on Arizona, the powder or shell house? It’s just that the damage is quite different from Hood, Barham, Vanguard or Bulwark that were all blown literally to bits by powder magazine explosions.
It is my understanding that it was a million pounds of cordite from the powder magazine that exploded. The shell magazine would have done much greater damage. Also, the huge fire after the explosion is indicative of a cordite explosion.
this is not scanning the ship... this is literally scanning a bottle, pan and other useless things.,... granted scanning a 180 meter mangled wreck of steel would take a long time and a hell of a lot of funds. Try not to mislead those who are interested.
I say. That was a lovely Coke bottle indeed. Whose to say it wasn't just tossed during salvage operations. At least the imperial plane wreck is likely period. To see the Arizona would of been easy enough. Well... In good time.
@@georgedistel1203 Cool, thanks. I forgot about this vid. High rez footage of the ship would of talked volumes! What was left when the smoke cleared should of been preserved. Not stripped. The little ole coke bottle seemed off point. A bottle of Saki would be a good Wow. Might be a few of them around the harbor. 🐒🗽
The Arizona was heavily salvaged. What's left isn't too impressive. However, some of its guns were salvaged, installed on other battleships, and fired in anger in WW2.
grave or not it also poses an environment problem so it might be necessary to board her to start removing toxic and polluting elements of the old ship as you would like to be remembered for being a an environment disaster. maybe it's time to encase the vessel create a dry dock and make it a real monument for ever
DFWTF read what I am talking about I a, talking about mistake in the preservation of the monument and the potential environment impacts if it allowed to continue to decay in this way
DFWTF if you want to look at it as historical we in Britain new the date and place of attack weeks before but we kept it to ourselves as we had to get America into the war as the empire could not stand alone and your President kept refusing our requests for help. It would have been a very different world now certainly Britain and it's empire would be here as a satellite state of Germania will it's empire and we would have split America (USA between use and Japan after Germany and Britain brought you down)British king would have been a puppet head of state. This is why we need to bring you in
Government bureaucrats and greedy corporations making large paychecks at the publics expense, for committing unnecessary sacrilege. Let our servicemen rest in peace in their memorial.
@@jessieblanton9875 What a stupid comment. It was far too damaged to be refloated. There is a split in the bow that goes from deck to keel that literally cut the ship in two pieces from the massive explosion it sustained. Never mind it is a tomb for 1,177 sailors.
What Nimitz did to Captain Howard Bode who was the Captain of the Oklahoma on 12/7 and survived only to commit suicide after he was told that he was going to be court martialed and blamed for the failures of numerous higher ranking admirals at the Battle of Savo Island was disgusting too. Nimitz defending and covering up Mitscher's Flight to Nowhere at Midway was disgusting too.