Roy Collimore, a microbiologist, estimates that the bow alone now supports some 650 tons of rusticles and that they will have devoured fifty per cent of the hull within 200 years.
微生物学家罗伊·科利莫尔估计，现在仅在船首就有大约650吨的铁锈，而且在200年以内，百分之五十的船体将被分解掉。