Severe corrosion–resistant Type 316 stainless steel.

I was recently specifying elements in drawings and had to use the above type of steel as they would be only some 50 yards from the seawater.  I was contemplating why would there be any other possibility really.  It all comes to the value system we apply in our designs.  Do we value the work we do, or the money the owners will spend, unworthy of resisting the salt water?  Why should there be elements, such as metal connections, that are unavailable in that type of steel?  Maintenance is not cheap; and in the end it is the better quality that costs less.