The USS Arizona's Oil Leak-- Part 2: More Than 900 Still Aboard the Ship

Oil is also leaking from the sunken battleship USS Utah, but neither the Navy or NPS know how much is leaking each day or how much has leaked since the attack or how much is left in the ship.

"People talk about how beautiful  it is to see the oil glisten on top of the water and how much it reminds them of the lives lost," says Maxx Phillips,  an environmental attorney.  "All it does to me is to think about the lives lost after the fact, everything from bacteria all the way up the food chain to our sharks are endangered animals living in that toxicity."

Regardless, today, there is coral growing on the Arizona as well as sea horses on it and sea turtles swimming around it.  A young hammerhead shark and black-tipped reef shark also make it home.

The oil could have been removed, but the USS Arizona isn't just another ship.  It is an active military grave. More than 900 of the 1,177 servicemen who died aboard the Arizona are still aboard it.  Additionally, 40 crew members who survived the attack now have urns with their ashes buried aboard the ship.

--GreGen