What’s Eating The Titanic?

2024-03-22

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When a ship sinks, lots of factors, like the ship’s materials, the water quality, and the depth of the seafloor all play a role in determining how long the ship will last down there - as a result, the Titanic will be gone in fifty years, while Byzantine wrecks in the Black sea remain.

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- Anoxia: the absence of oxygen

- Chemosynthesis: the synthesis of organic compounds by bacteria or other living organisms using energy derived from reactions involving inorganic chemicals, typically in the absence of sunlight.

- Corrode: destroy or damage (metal, stone, or other materials) slowly by chemical action.

- Decomposer: an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.

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