HONOLULU (AP) — The National Park Service and the Navy aim to resume taking visitors to the USS Arizona Memorial in a week, after a dock damaged by a wayward vessel is repaired. ADVERTISING HONOLULU (AP) — The National Park
HONOLULU (AP) — The National Park Service and the Navy aim to resume taking visitors to the USS Arizona Memorial in a week, after a dock damaged by a wayward vessel is repaired.
Park Service spokeswoman Abby Wines said Thursday that an attachment point between the floating dock and its anchors came loose when a vessel rammed it. She says anchors will need to be reset and chains retightened.
The incident occurred Wednesday when the hospital ship USNS Mercy and a civilian tugboat contracted by the Navy were maneuvering in Pearl Harbor. The tugboat or the Mercy hit the dock.
The sunken USS Arizona wasn’t damaged.
Wines says visitors will be able to enter the memorial at the World War II battleship starting June 4 if repairs go as expected.
