Originally Posted By: David


The items we found on this wreck, which was within six miles of LB7 on the bottom, were remarkably well preserved. However, the salt water can act like battery acid on carbon steel at this depth. If you look closely at the photo of the recovered knife, you can see where this happened. This scarring is not present on the knife in the Indiana museum.


The Rhodium plating on this knife probably helped reduce the adverse effects of the saltwater environment.