2007-12-08 02:19:45 · 4 answers · asked by jimplan365 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
If you are deprived of oxygen for more than 4 minutes, you are dead. You can drown in a bathtub.
2007-12-08 02:24:38 · answer #1 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have wondered about this for years. I talked with an old gentleman who was a pearl survivor; he told me about hearing people banging on the hull from the inside weeks after the attack. There seems to have been no attempt to put divers down to go up inside to effect any rescues or anything. This seems rather strange in view of the shallow water and all; divers could have taken air hoses down and up to replenish air and survivors could have been ferried out.
2007-12-08 11:17:02 · answer #2 · answered by acmeraven 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The blast that destroyed Arizona and sank her at her berth alongside of Ford Island consumed the lives of 1,177 of the 1,400 on board at the time—over half of the casualties suffered by the entire fleet in the attack.
Placed "in ordinary" at Pearl Harbor on December 29, Arizona was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on December 1, 1942. Her wreck was cut down so that very little of the superstructure lay above water; after her main battery turrets and guns were removed (with the exception of the Number One turret, discovered during a dive in 1983) to be emplaced as coast defense guns. See also List of U.S. Navy losses in World War II. It is commonly but incorrectly believed that Arizona remains perpetually in comm
2007-12-08 10:37:50 · answer #3 · answered by sparks9653 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it was upturned with the hull facing upward and flooding
the armor was too strong to break through the hull before the compartments flooded
2007-12-08 10:30:19 · answer #4 · answered by Go Blue 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋