Rusticles

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	RUSTICLE AND PORTHOLE More Titanic Wreck Pictures...
liveauctioneers.com	HERITAGE PULLS 3 TITANIC ITEMS FROM AUCTION Heritage pulls 3 Titanic items from auctionAuction Central NewsThe items, commonly called "rusticles," are biological formations that developed over the decades on wreckage of the RMS Titanic, but were not originally part of the ship. Heritage is returning the lots to the consignor, Charles Pellegrino. ......	18th May 2011
Roxborough Review	TITANIC BEING EATEN AWAY Had the Titanic not sunk, it eventually would have been scrapped. Because it sank, the wreckage has been preserved all this time. However, the wreck will not be preserved forever. It is slowly deteriorating, and deterioration will not only continue, but accelerate. The deterioration, in fact, has a biologic cause. The depth to which the ship sank helped preserve the wreckage all these years because it is an oxygen-poor region of the abyssal ocean floor. There is no light at that depth. Photographs and videos of the wreckage depend on artificial lights carried aboard the deep sea submersibles that dive on the wreck. But microbes are eating the steel of which the ocean liner was built. Formations known as rusticles form on the ship's steel as the microbes eat away at the metal. Bronze fixtures of the ship are not affected by the microbes....	9th February 2006
Titanic Research	DETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC Stephanie Clements The RMS. Titanic has laid 2.5 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean since her sinking, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York on April 14, 1912. Many questions were raised on the state of the vessel condition and how sh...	11th January 2008
Titanic Research	BIODETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC Roy Cullimore & Lori Johnston How marine organism activity will lead to the eventual destruction of the Titanic...	28th January 2001