Batten down the hatches! A rust-eating microbe called Halomonas titanicae may completely disintegrate the shipwreck within your lifetime.
in North Carolina. “When a wreck occurs and reaches the bottom of the ocean, you get mixing of the water and sediment from that disturbance. That allows the microbes in the sediment to get into the water column and potentially attach onto the new habitat that has arrived,” she says.
That's bad news for preservation, given its appetite for destruction. Rather than make rust, like its neighbors,essentially eats it. According to Field, this bacterium gets its energy from consuming the rust that’s been produced by other microbes or even chemical reactions in the water. In doing so, its waste products are dissolved iron — which, to us, comes across as if it’s nothing at all. "There are parts of these wrecks that will deteriorate and disappear over time,” Field says.
Naturally, humans are not the ship's only visitors. "There is one place on the ship where I saw, maybe 20 years ago, some little pieces of coral starting to grow,” Nargeolet says. “And today they are huge. It looks like a megaphone or something like that, and they're absolutely beautiful.”Just last year, the OceanGate crew took note of odd-looking crabs, shrimps and grenadiers — hulking, bottom-dwelling fish with bulging eyes and impossibly long tails.
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