If Oil Still Leaks from Arizona, How Much Damage from a Tanker?

   This should give scope to how much damage an oil tanker spill can cause, or the damage from an off-shore drilling leak.

   Monumental.

   Every day, a half-gallon of oil leaks from the USS Arizona in Hawaii. The Arizona was a battleship, not an oil tanker. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, they torpedoed eight battleships, the US Arizona being just one. The USS Utah was among the others, and oil continues to leak from it, as well.

   The largest, of course, was the USS Arizona. Now if a half-gallon is leaking from the Arizona every day 80 years later, one can only wonder how much harm comes from an oil tanker spill. Surely, tankers carry more oil than battleships.

   The National Park Service estimates the USS Arizona could leak for 500 years.