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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/kash-patel-hawaii-vip-snorkel-pearl-harbour-9.7199941

When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note the director was not on vacation, highlighting his walking tour of the bureau's Honolulu field office and meetings with local law enforcement.

Left out of the FBI news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took days later, when he participated in what government officials described as a "VIP snorkel" around the USS Arizona in an outing co-ordinated by the military. The sunken battleship entombs more than 900 sailors and marines at Pearl Harbor.

With few exceptions, snorkeling and diving are off-limits around the USS Arizona. The battleship, now a military cemetery reachable only by boat, has stood as one of the country's most hallowed sites since Japan bombed and sank it in 1941. 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.