A biofilm of bacteria and other microbes coats the Titanic’s steel structure ... other species that oxidize iron and produce acid, are steadily weakening the ship’s structural integrity.

Strong ocean currents, salt corrosion and metal-eating bacteria are attacking the ship ... in the Titanic's decay. "There are microbes on the shipwreck that are eating away the iron of the ...

iron and sulphur out of the steel and weakening the wreck. It is estimated that Titanic will be unrecognisable as a ship within a hundred years, eventually becoming nothing more than an iron ore ...

Its biggest fascination may be in that the Titanic represents so perfectly ... designed in other ways as well. The steel of ...