From July 29, 2021, KHON 2 "Renovated Pearl Harbor submarine museum to teach STEM" Kamaka Pili.
When most people think of Pearl Harbor, the name USS Arizona pops into mind and maybe the USS Missouri. Not many people think of the USS Bowfin.
Exactly one year after Pearl Harbor was attacked, a submarine nicknamed "The Pearl Harbor Avenger" was launched. That vessel was the USS Bowfin (SS-287). Today, it resides at Pearl Harbor as part of the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum.
She was commissioned in 1943, made nine war patrols in the Pacific and was supposed to be scrapped in the 1970s, but was converted into a museum ship in 1981. Later, this year, she will celebrate her 10 millionth visitor.
With its reopening the sub will feature all sorts of STEM educational points. Among them: How does it surface? How does it dive? Chemistry. And, how do the batteries work?
The renovation project cost $20 million.
--GreGen
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