First the toredo snails now this...
December 10, 2010 8:50 AM
by kdawson
Iron-Eating Bug Is Gobbling Up the Titanic
gambit3 writes "A newly discovered microbe dubbed Halomonas titanicae is chewing its way through the wreck of the Titanic and leaving little behind except a fine dust, researchers report in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 'In 1995, I was predicting that Titanic had another 30 years,' said Henrietta Mann, a civil engineering adjunct professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 'It's deteriorating much faster than that now.'"
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Art Trembanis
CSHEL
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Delaware
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