Emails described by multiple outlets say FBI Director Kash Patel’s trip to Hawaii last summer included a scheduled “VIP snorkel” at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona Memorial is a site that permanently entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. According to the reports, the emails characterize the trip as official work, noting that the FBI took steps to document that Patel was not on vacation. Other elements of the itinerary mentioned in the coverage include Patel’s walking tour of the FBI’s Honolulu field office and meetings with local law enforcement. While former FBI directors have visited Pearl Harbor on official business, one outlet reports that, based on records going back to at least 1993, snorkelling at the memorial appears not to have happened during prior comparable official visits. The outlets rely on government email records released as part of reporting, including references to Associated Press-described documents.