What's the story with the U.S.S. Texas?

[The Inspector]

The local morning news had a very terse snippet in the screen crawl about the Texas springing 'A massive leak' and it never came up as a story and I saw no further details-what in the heck is going on with it??

[TROJANII]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/13/wo ... as-floods/

"as much as 1,000 gallons of seawater a minute"

[The Inspector]

Thanks for the quick reply-Holy Mackerel Andy-it's been leaking since Saturday and the press is just now getting around to reporting it?? Sounds like 'all the news that fits, we print'
I wish them a great deal of luck finding the leak quickly and then that a repair can be made on 100 year old steel which is a lot different in composition than modern steels.

[carlisle1926]

I was out there on June 6th. I saw several workers in a boat on the port side of the ship doing something to the torpedo blister roughly halfway down the length of the hull. They had the torpedo blister access hatches open and they were going down inside the ship much the way the guy is doing in the photo from the news story. She has been taking on water for a long time now. I think it might be time to permanently dry dock her on shore. This ship is absolutely amazing.

[Ztex]

Yeah she has been leaking for a long time...the pumps keep her from drowning.
This seems to be a new, more dangerous leak....the one they have been afraid of maybe...

There are plan to permanently dry birth her at the current site....all she needs is money.

http://www.battleshiptexas.org/aboutUs/ ... yBerth.cfm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vws077hSis

[carlisle1926]

The air quality in Deer Park(home of the Texas), Pasadena, Channelview, Baytown and Northshore is pretty bad from all of the chemical plants. A huge roof needs to be built over the ship after it is dry docked to protect it from the acids in the rain in that area. The chemical plants seem to drop a lot of nasty stuff on anything in the area. The east side of Houston doesn't hold the highest cancer per capita record in the US for no reason- but that is another topic.
They built a huge roof over the USS Cairo in the Vicksburg Civil War Battlefield. Given the Cairo is much smaller than the USS Texas, but this is Texas where everything is bigger or something like that. But, just getting it dry docked will do wonders. The Texas is still an uphill battle above the water line due to years of salt spray and weather exposure. I absolutely love this ship. It doesn't look big at all in photos or for that matter standing next to it. Once on board, and you walk up a few decks, you realize just how huge it is.