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RUSTICLE AND PORTHOLE More Titanic Wreck Pictures... | |||||
| Roxborough Review | (2006) | 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 | |||
| ET Research | (2008) | DETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC 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 | |||
| ET Research | (2001) | BIODETERIORATION OF THE RMS TITANIC 2 One of the great icons of the twentieth century was born April 15, 1912 with the sinking of the RMS Titanic. At her launching, this great ship was the largest liner ever built and carried the distinction of being the bigge... | 28th January 2001 | |||
