Archeologists Return to <i>USS Arizona</i> with VideoRay Underwater Robot

Beginning November 2004, archeologists from the Submerged Resources Center of the U.S. National Park Service initiated a three-week investigation of the wreck of USS Arizona, the American battleship sunk in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941. Using nondestructive techniques, the team will conduct tests to determine the structural integrity of the ship, record in detail its current state for comparison with earlier surveys, and collect environmental data in the interior of the ship using VideoRay remotely-operated vehicles (ROVs). Because the ship is considered a war grave, divers will not enter the interior spaces of the vessel.