Fiberglass

Fiberglass doesn't rust.

Last April, staff from the Oregon Coast Aquarium rescued more than a dozen yellowtail jacks and one striped beakfish from a half-sunk, fiberglass wreck coated in seaweed. It was the front half of a roughly 15-meter-long commercial fishing vessel.

To get some of these grains, the Stardust spacecraft caught up with Wild-2 400 million kilometers from Earth, passing the icy body just 240 kilometers away. As it moved through the gas and dust surrounding the comet, it caught more than 1,000 of its particles in a tray containing a wispy fiberglass filter.

Chivell has decided to step in. He is installing small fiberglass igloos for the penguins to use as nests.

As carousels began to be made of metals and fiberglass, workmen qualified to maintain hand-carved and painted carousels became hard to find.