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To: TexasGator
Cold seawater lacking oxygen is not corrosive.

Exactly. The hull is not technically rusting away, it is being eaten by microbes. The equipment and artifacts inside are in remarkably good condition for the most part.

95 posted on 05/20/2020 9:32:36 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
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To: commish

” The hull is not technically rusting away, it is being eaten by microbes.”

Dang microbes will eat anything!


98 posted on 05/20/2020 9:36:10 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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