U.S. Navy Salvors Remove Oil from A-Bomb Test Ship

The US Navy Rescue Team is working to remove fuel oil from the sunken heavy cruiser Prince Prinz Eugen, the World War II war award used in the American Atomic Bomb Experiment on Bikini Atoll.

Prinz Eugen is a Germania werft Pier in Kiel, one of the five Admiral Hipper graders built for Nazi Germany. In May 1941 she participated in the attack on HMS Hood, but she did most of the repair work in the rest of the war. After the end of the Second World War she became the American War Award and the US Navy assigned her as a target for nuclear tests at intersections.

Prince Prince Eugene still experienced a nuclear explosion at two strategic intersections, but she was only 1,200 yards away from zero. Test Able 's Air shot gives little damage. Shoot in the basement, test the bakery, cause leaks and eventually submerge her. That summer, like most other boats anchored at a bikini atoll, Prince Eugen left irreparable radioactive contamination unchecked. The invisible threat to the health of this sailor is already serious and the Navy has canceled the plan for the third test.

A US Navy crew tried to remove radioactivity from the deck of Prinz Eugen at the Operation Intersection (USN) in 1946

After the intersection, Prince Eugen was towed by the Kwajalein Atoll where she sank down overturned. According to the Navy's assessment she says it will no longer cause the risk of radioactive contamination, but the US Fish and Wildlife Service believes that it still has about 2,800 tons of fuel. Her fuel tank was full of bomb tests, so the risk of hull deterioration, instability of the ocean floor and release of oil due to storms increased.

For decades, concern about the possibility of Prince Eugen's oil spill has been raised. Kwajarin is currently the US military's Ronald Reagan ballistic missile test site. The Republic of Marshall Islands asked the United States to support the remediation of the remains of 2010, but its funds could not be used immediately. But this year, a joint work is under way for US and US Navy to extract oil. The US Navy diver used the rescue ship USNS Salvor of the military maritime headquarters to extract this oil using thermal attack method. Product tanker Humber is receiving the extracted fuel, and the team is expected to complete the work in October.

On May 23, 1943, a rescue team of the US Navy began to clean up debris in the deck of Oklahoma State in Pearl Harbor, Japan 's bomb sunk on December 7, 1941. A huge crane removed most of the twisted debris in the background. A hose next to a man's foot is used to pump water from the boat. President of the Associated Press, Franklin Roosevelt called it "a shameful day" on December 7, 1941. On that day, the Japanese plane attacked the US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The explosion killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed US battleship. Arizona and the United States were overturned. Oklahoma attack sank or left 12 ships and damaged the other 9 ships. 160 aircraft were destroyed and 150 aircraft were damaged. According to the American library, the attack surprised the country, especially the Pearl Harbor base is not ready.

For decades, concern about the possibility of Prince Eugen's oil spill has been raised. Kwajarin is currently the US military's Ronald Reagan ballistic missile test site. The Republic of Marshall Islands asked the United States to support the remediation of the remains of 2010, but its funds could not be used immediately. But this year, a joint work is under way for US and US Navy to extract oil. The US Navy diver used the rescue ship USNS Salvor of the military maritime headquarters to extract this oil using thermal attack method. Product tanker Humber is receiving the extracted fuel, and the team is expected to complete the work in October.