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New bacteria found is eating the Titanic

The strain, dubbed Halomonas titanicae was initially designatedBH1T in honor of the researchers who discovered it, then-graduate student Bhavleen Kaur and Dr. Henrietta Mann at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

The researchers tested the bacteria to see whether it was "good bacteria" or "bad bacteria," Let's just say the bug has an appetite for destruction.

In 1995, I was predicting that Titanic had another 30 years," said Mann, who still works at the university, "But I think it's deteriorating much faster than that now ... Eventually there will be nothing left but a rust stain," she is quoted as saying.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/11...itanic/?hpt=C2