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The U S Navy says it is sunk. The dutch qualify it as sunk/scuttled.
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I doubt that very much. Even the original logs from the USS Cod do not say it was sunk. It is scientifically impossible to sink something that is on the bottom but still sticking out of the water
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Of course then we could go further and say the Arizona was not sunk because part of the ship was sticking out of the water.
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The Arizona was floating, lost het buoyancy, and then moved towards the bottom where she stopped moving. I call that sinking.
The Dutch sub was sailing and then ran onto the "land" (a reef) where she stopped moving. Like driving your boat onto the beach after a day of sailing. She was just stuck, never lost her buoyancy, so she did not sink.
Now tell me which navy calls that sunk ? Maybe the Swiss navy, but definately not the US or Dutch navy :-)
Then they tried to pull her off the reef, they even fired fish to loose weight and use the recoil forces, no go. So then finally they demolisched all important equipment, shelled her, and torpedoed her in order to deny her usefulness to the enemy.
