Why couldn t they open the USS Arizona?

In the 70+ years since that have passed since, the USS Arizona has slowly been deteriorating away, it will eventually decay completely away. As such, the ship is not structurally sound enough to raise and would disintegrate if the attempt were actually attempted.



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The USS Arizona Memorial is closed to visitation due to a failure of the anchoring system for its dock. The anchor system failure occurred due to natural variables related to sediment in Pearl Harbor.

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The National Park Service (NPS) in partnership with Pacific Historic Parks offers daily programs that include a movie about the December 7th, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a boat ride to the USS Arizona Memorial. The Boat tours start at 8:00 am and go through 3:30pm daily.

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Of the 1,177 USS Arizona sailors and Marines killed at Pearl Harbor, more than 900 could not be recovered and remain entombed on the ship, which sank in nine minutes. A memorial built in 1962 sits above the wreckage. Sixty died on the Utah, and three have been interred there.

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Fuel continues to leak from USS Arizona's wreckage. However, despite the raging fire and ravages of time, some 500,000 gallons are still slowly seeping out of the ship's submerged wreckage: Nearly 70 years after its demise, Arizona continues to spill up to 9 quarts of oil into the harbor each day.

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The displays in the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center aren't meant to be touched and other locations, specifically the USS Arizona Memorial, require quiet and respectful behavior from everyone.

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Famously, the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) was only in combat for minutes before a Japanese armor-piercing bomb struck the ship's forward magazine, causing an explosion that devastated the “super-dreadnought” and killed 1,177 officers and crewmen.

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The short answer: Yes, an attack similar to that on Pearl Harbor is a possibility, Take a look at a map of the United States and take note of what lies to the east and west. Nothing but water. An immensely long stretch of water that can serve as the perfect staging point for an attack of a similar magnitude.

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