On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:06 PM, David Mathog wrote:

A sprinkler leak in a computer room is bad, but just imagine the damage that seawater would do. Even a fine mist would be dreadful, as it would
be sucked through the cases and the droplets would either short things
out immediately, or lead inevitably to corroded metal throughout the
machine.

It is worse than that. You are in a 100% humidity environment. The seawater is cooler than the air temp, so you get condensation everywhere below deck or anywhere the chilled water pipes run.

Scott
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