[Eric in the Ozarks]

I sold N6 oil and blends to Great Lakes steamships for many years and immediately recognized the smell when we visited the Arizona five years ago. The drips will likely continue for decades if not longer. She went down with about two million gallons of oil, or so I was told.
One of the unspoken issues with the Navy at Pearl is what to do if the wreck destabilizes and falls to pieces on the floor of the harbor. There was talk about building a cement sarcophagus around the BB but no one is command wants to even talk about it, fearing it will begin to collapse on their watch...

[Ciaphas Cain]

There are still pockets of air within the Arizona's hull. Some of them can be seen from the portholes. A moment of time from 1941, frozen in place.

It is not an easy thing to wonder, in such situations, what the condition of the human remains are in.