Re: [OT] Wet Navy History, in the news

At 3:23 PM -0500 5/29/02, DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:
>i wonder if the  preservation of wooden vessels in deeper water as
>anything to do with temperature?
>
>too cold  for wood eating organism?

More like there isn't enough oxygen. They've dug up nearly complete 
wooden hulls from silty/clay-ey sediment.
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