An Underwater Drone Entered the USS Arizona After 75 Years — The Footage Left Scientists Terrified

An Underwater Drone Entered the USS Arizona After 75 Years — The Footage Left Scientists Terrified In 2016, a 94-year-old man named Donald Stratton sat in front of a monitor at Pearl Harbor and watched a small underwater drone slip inside the battleship he had escaped as a teenager. On the screen, a telephone sat on a desk where someone had left it seventy-five years earlier, and a light bulb was still screwed into its socket. "It's kind of eerie," he said. However, the robots that went deeper that winter confirmed something that still worries scientists, because the USS Arizona is holding hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil, and it leaks every single day. My name is Marcus Reed and this ship is a war grave with more than nine hundred men still aboard, sitting in about forty feet of water under a memorial that well over a million people visit every year. What those machines saw inside her, and what they measured, explains why the people responsible for her talk about her like a patient they can't operate on.