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The sunken battleship entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.
The FBI did not disclose the snorkeling session or that Patel had returned to Hawaii for two days after his initial stopover on the island.
Marine archaeologists and crews from the National Park Service make occasional dives at the memorial to survey the condition of the wreck.
Other dives have been conducted to inter the remains of Arizona survivors who wanted to rest eternally with their former shipmates.
Patel defended the trip as recently as this week as “purposely planned” in connection with a cybercrime investigation involving the Italian authorities.
The snorkeling session happened one day after Patel stopped in Wellington to open the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand. »