The corrosion from the salt water would eat away the traces and corrode the ICs themselves corrupting the doped layers of the transistors. Any data would be unrecoverable.
Sea Water damage to an integrated circuit
Posted on 05/12/2016 3:35:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple Care...fails again.
What’s funny is, Microsoft actively tries to avoid helping customers with anything, google will help, but you’ll probably have to jump through hoops to get in touch with them and they’ll want your credit card number, but if Apple can’t (or won’t) help someone nowadays, there’s a news story about it.
Not sure why the memory would be corrupted unless it got hosed via salt water shorts.
I've got 3 years of childhood swim school under my belt but I would not be here today if that boat sank out in open ocean.
The corrosion from the salt water would eat away the traces and corrode the ICs themselves corrupting the doped layers of the transistors. Any data would be unrecoverable.
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