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delight of power-crazed dictators everywhere, scientists have found a steel-eating microbe munching its way through the engineering structures of up to 90 per cent of British ports and harbours.

Steel-eating microbes threaten to devour Britain's ports

Sunday, 5 December 1999

By Kath Gourlay and Mark Rowe

05 December 1999

It could, in the wrong hands, become the germ-warfare choice for the 21st century. To the delight of power-crazed dictators everywhere, scientists have found a steel-eating microbe munching its way through the engineering structures of up to 90 per cent of British ports and harbours.

Port authorities in the UK are on high alert after a study found that nine out of ten British ports are affected by the microbes, which attack vital structural support systems in salt water environments, corroding sheet piling and leaving girders looking as though they have been riddled with bullet holes.

A whole mixture of bugs are involved, interacting with one another to produce hydrogen sulphate gas that leaves ports smelling of rotten eggs. The condition, known as Accelerated Low Water Corrosion, is caused when surface bacteria which use oxygen establish a colony and then interact with other bacteria that do not need oxygen, creating a "bacterial soup" in which the microbes can flourish.

The study, by an engineering wing of the British Standards Institute, found that as the bacteria grows, it gathers in the nooks and crannies of underwater structures and produces an acid which eats into the metal, turning it bright orange.

One of the specialist engineers tackling the problem said he was "horrified" by what he had seen. "The bacteria can go through sheet piling like a knife through butter," said Craig Donald, director of CorrOcean, in Aberdeen.

A manager of a second firm of Scottish corrosion engineers admitted his firm has found what he describes as "strange and virulent beasties" in water as deep as 180 metres. Felixstowe has been particularly badly hit. British Steel is so concerned at the potential for damage it has experimented with 30 paint formulations in an attempt to find one that resists attacks on sheet piling.

Professor Frank Walsh, of Portsmouth University's applied electrochemistry group, warned that the bacteria worked with devastating speed. "It can cut the lifetime of a structure from 100 years to possibly 40," he said.

The "bugs" that are in the Tropical Gulf may be bigger or more advanced.

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  • A methane bubble however small, under pressure acts like a balloon, and just like letting go of the end of a balloon, a methane bubble ruptures the same way.

    That is why you think you see a tail, when really it's only methane bubbles rupturing and shooting off.

    Also these bubbles are drawn to heat, and at that depth and pressure the equipment only needs to be slightly warmer to draw these tiny bubbles in.

    So what you see is them hitting warm spots, while movement shakes off cooler ones.

  • @Connected2U2 no there is a report from 1999 that clearly talks about these bugs that can enter through steel causing it to glow orange I will send you the article now

  • Steel eating aliens? I won't deny that there is some very strange stuff floating around here but IMO that is the most far fetched idea I've heard in a long time. And I'm sorry I tried as hard as I could to see them "swimming in the steel" but no success in seeing that, sorry. Don't we have enough to worry about for real, without drumming up some far fetched idea like this? There is something strange there but I don't think its steel eating aliens.

  • @bleibrandpolsky it has been confirmed!

  • The video resolution is very poor, however I noticed these same objects before the leak was capped. They are emerging from cracks in the sea bed and posibly micro fishers in the pipe - The tails are most likely visual artifacts caused by motion in front of a digital camera, and while I am unable to prove conclusively what the objects are, it is extremely likely that they are nothing more than frozen methane which will appear to grow over time and is being swept around by water currents.

  • @NeoKitty69 I have no idea but can clearly see where they have become much larger in recent days

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  • @Connected2U2 then why would the goverment try to kill them with some green poison?see beepee.

  • the video links there but video is gone

  • I thought I was going to see these things ,,,where did they go????

  • A day late, video's gone just like the original video by truthsofearth, That used reposted a video with same frame shot, but article is toned down! I am putting together a vid today with TONS of links and some weird stuf happening. It IS not just weird, it is MURDER.

  • Daruis why do you even care about your grammatic bullshit wtf you missed the t in statement just shut the fuck up and relax you schould kill yourselfe for that comment

  • @dariustate2008 you're one to talk. I'm pretty sure "throught" isn't a word.

    haha i'm just screwin' with ya. xD

    nah,he's seriously full of it. -.-

  • Do you have any proof that these are actually organisms? Even your voice sounds uneducated. You not even using grammatically correct statements throught the video.

  • Do you have any proof that these are actually organisms? Even your voice sounds uneducated. You not even using grammatically correct staements throught the video.

  • Any chance of finding the deleted video?

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