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>> we're just going to keep it in the same water until we get it back to the lab and can get it in a solution where we can clean it up. >> reporter: a few hours later at the ford discovery lab. >> look at how it just ate the plastic. >> reporter: to retrieve the data the phone is pulled apart, the board which includes the memory chip is baitded in an 80-degrees ultrasonic cleaner several times and any tiny salt deposits are chipped away. >> this is the most important part. this is where all the data is held and stored. so this -- this is actually looking pretty good. >> there we go. >> reporte...

Now we have a pressure chamber. the plan is to leave our phone in water for a week and see if our text, e-mails and videos can be retrieved. it's 2:30 on april 8th. we'll place it into our chamber right now. this is going directly into saltwater that simulates the indian ocean. reason seconds saltwater fills the inside of the phone. eight days later two computer forensic experts come to the aquarium to remove the phone. >> i can see the salt corrosion building up on the outside of the phone. it's just whether or not it made its way all of the way inside, built on top of electronics and whether...

Right, we have the temperature very cold. not as cold as it will be in the indian ocean, but pretty close, and now we've got a pressure changer. >> reporter: the plan is to leave the phone in water for a week and see if our text, e-mail, videos and photo can be retree iev retrieved. >> we're going to place it into our chamber right now. this is going directly into saltwater that simulates the indian ocean. >> reporter: within seconds, saltwater fills the inside of the phone. eight days later, two of our computer forensic experts company to the aquarium to remove the phone. >> i can definitely ...

At the ford discovery lab -- >> look how it ate the plastic. >> reporter: to retrieve the data, the phone is pulled apart. the board, which includes the memory chip is bathed in an 80 degree ultrasonic cleaner several times. and any tiny salt deposits are chipped away. this is the most important part. this is where all the data is held and stored. so this is actually looking pretty good. the chip is then actually removed, using heat. >> it was in pretty good shape. so the next step, quite honestly, is to just pop it into an adapter like this. >> eventually, there it is. the e-mails i tried t...

Indian ocean, but pretty close. and now we've got a pressure chamber. the plan is to leave our phone in water for a week and see if our test e-mail, text, video and photos can be retrieved. >> it's 2:30 on april 8. and we're going to place it into our chamber right now. this is going directly into saltwater that simulates the indian ocean. >> reporter: within seconds, saltwater fills inside the of the phone. eight days later, two of our computer forensic experts come to the aquarium to remove the phone. >> i can definitely see the salt corrosion building up on the outside of the phone. it's ju...