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Phone in water for a week and see if our test e-mail, text, video and photos can be retrieved. >> it's 2:30 and we're going to place it into our chamber right now. this is going directly into salt water that simulates the indian ocean. >> within seconds, salt water fills the inside of the phone. eight days later, two of our computer experts come to the aquarium to remove the phone. >> i could see the salt corrosion building up on the outside of the phone. it's whether or not it made its way inside and built up on top of the electronics and whether or not it corroded the data chip. >> that's go...