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Tests hint Arizona's hull still sturdy after 63 years
Honolulu Advertiser ^
| Friday, September 27, 2002
| William Cole
Posted on 09/27/2002 6:56:40 PM PDT by Vidalia
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:18:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Divers who took metal samples for the first time from the hull of the USS Arizona last month came up with some qualified good news: the historic battleship is not decaying as rapidly as thought.
"What we can say at this point
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: arizonamemorial; pearlharbor
" Divers who took metal samples for the first time from the hull of the USS Arizona last month came up with some qualified good news: the historic battleship is not decaying as rapidly as thought. "
Maybe there is a bit of maintenance coming from "within".
Goose bumps, anyone...?
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posted on
09/27/2002 6:56:40 PM PDT
by
Vidalia
To: Vidalia
Davey Jone's Damage Control Locker, perhaps?
To: Vidalia
"People will say, gee, is it going to collapse and let the oil out?" Murphy said.
If it does that, clean up the oil, and leave the ship right where it is please...
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posted on
09/27/2002 7:12:26 PM PDT
by
July 4th
To: Vidalia
Thought the same thing, very spiritual. Surprised that "they" have not figured out a way to preserve these type of things better. Thinking.... underwater glass bubble??
To: Imperialist
It's just the passage of time.
Technology probably will not catch up or compete with Ma Nature.
It's the remembrance that is meaningful, not necessarily the hull.
I will not forget my uncle's name that is on that marble wall...
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posted on
09/27/2002 7:23:32 PM PDT
by
Vidalia
To: Vidalia
Steel needs free oxygen as well as water to rust.
There's some oxygen dissolved in sea water, but if you leave something under water it rusts a lot slower than if you pull it up into the air.
If you swamp an outboard motor, you should submerge it in fresh water until you have a chance to take it apart and clean it. Otherwise, if it sits in the air for only a short while it turns into junk.
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posted on
09/27/2002 7:24:59 PM PDT
by
Cicero
To: Vidalia
I had that heart-warming stomach-churning soul-wrenching wall experience only two other times. Punchbowl and looking down at the Arizona.
kj
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posted on
09/27/2002 7:29:37 PM PDT
by
AzJP
To: AzJP
Hope you had a chance to visit the Missouri at her new harbor mooring...
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posted on
09/27/2002 7:55:55 PM PDT
by
Vidalia
To: Vidalia
Heck, I thought this was a report about a medical checkup for the Governor of Arizona, Jane D. Hull.
Fooled me.
To: DuncanWaring
Hull no!
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posted on
09/27/2002 9:50:21 PM PDT
by
Vidalia
To: Vidalia
May God bless him, and I say thank you for his bravery.
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