I would imagine that the cold water temperature, combined with the airtight and waterproof glass enclosures, would have preserved it quite nicely for all those years. And who knows: maybe, like wine, it gets better with age?? Perhaps those bottles held some super-potent morphine.
BTW, I recall seeing an episode of that program about Odyssey Marine Explorations, a deep-sea salvage company that goes around scouring old shipwrecks for valuables and treasures and such. One thing they recovered from an old WWI-era ship was kegs of opium tar - from which are made the various opiate drugs. They said that even after all those years, it was still usable, and they could sell it to some pharmaceutical company, so it was worth their while to recover it.
"Beautiful evening. You can almost see the stars..." — J. Frank Parnell, "Repo Man"
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c7c7c7r
14 years ago
Treece and David could've collected most of the ampules and gave them to a hospital. On the quiet. Why not? Love the movie, though. Shaw was great.
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