alt Hacker NewsI used to live and work on tall ships.
We never had this issue, but we also likely had better storage conditions in that there was precious little chance of actual seawater reaching our food cans. Cans would sometimes rust on the rim, but I don't think I ever saw a can rust all the way through, despite some of them being likely years old.
This seems like overkill unless you are very convinced that your cans will come in contact with seawater.
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Thank you so much! This is exactly b what I was wondering.
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>This seems like overkill unless you are very convinced that your cans will come in contact with seawater.
It seems like a really minor effort layer of protection with almost 0 overhead to protect a person against death. Getting botulism food poisoning at sea by yourself in a tiny boat could very well be a death sentence. Especially if a substantial portion of your food was compromised.
$20 at costco for bags and an hour bagging all of your cans before your trip is hardly overkill.
Tiny boat, probably got considerable water onboard.