In 1987, veteran submersible pilot and former French naval commander PH Nargeolet journeyed to an ocean location some 330 miles southeast of Newfoundland, Canada — then plunged more than 2 miles below the surface of the Atlantic. At that depth, he laid eyes on the RMS Titanic, exactly 75 years after it first sank and only two years after its rediscovery.
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Bacteria Are Eating the Titanic
Batten down the hatches! Will a rusticle forming bacteria called Halomonas titanicae completely disintegrate the Titanic shipwreck within our lifetime?
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