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| Above, the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Boat tours past the USS Arizona resumed today after repairs to the floating boat dock were completed.
According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
Navy divers worked on the sunken USS Arizona Memorial visitor center dock Tuesday to try to get it refloated. It has since been repaired.
Boat tours of Pearl Harbor’s former Battleship Row will be reinstated Friday morning by the National Park Service following a five-day stop after the floating shoreside dock sank at the USS Arizona Memorial visitor center last Saturday.
The repairs were completed thanks to the “outstanding support” of Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard divers, Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1, Port Operations and Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii, the park service said.
Visitors will continue to see a 25-minute documentary film, followed by transfer to Navy boats for the harbor tour, which transits in close proximity to the USS Arizona Memorial.
Visitors normally have the opportunity to get off the boat on the walkway memorial that extends over the sunken Arizona, but walk-on access was curtailed as of May 10 to address a faulty anchoring system on the concrete floating dock that’s attached to the memorial.
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