Did Japanese midget submarines sink the Arizona?

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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

I have looked at this some more and I see some more holes in the theory:

1. there is no record of a midget sub being scooped up in 1944 and dumped outside of the harbour. Now it is possible that the Navy did not recognize what it was and just dumped it with the LST wrecks from the West Loch disaster, but a midget sub is 80 feet long and this one was in only 3 big pieces. It is improbable that someone would not have recognized that it is not a LST;

2. the wreckage lies in a straight line, bow in front followed by midsection followed by stern section, all within 180 meters of each other, exactly as you would expect if it had been scuttled and sank to the bottom. What are the odds it would land like that if the wreckage had been scooped up in West Loch and just dumped in the open ocean?

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There must be some naval record of them finding that sub, then dumping it out there with the rest of the garbage. In the video, they coudln't explain the extra cable. The Dive expert, Chatterton, thought it looked like a salvage cable.

I'm thinking, if they found it in West Loch and took it out and dumped it, maybe they shoud raise it and examine it? If the center compartment was blown apart, there couldn't be any bodies in there (making it not a grave anymore).
I'm just embarassed to say, I never knew they found the 5th sub. That was a pretty interesting show they had on it.