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* The episode "Magnetic Rose" of ''[[Memories]]'' takes place in one.

* The debris belt from ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' qualifies. Arguably, the L4 colony cluster does too.

* The Dark Witch, the villain of the first ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure (Anime)|Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart]]'' [[The Movie|movie]], makes her home in one of these.

== Comic Books ==

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* ''[[Far Cry]] 2'' has the Train variety in multiple areas, and a multiplayer map. Also Saharan Shipwrecks of a sort if you follow the tracks into the desert.

* The far side of the {{spoiler|Omega-4 Relay}} in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' is littered with broken and derelict ships {{spoiler|lacking the IFF transponder that tells the relay to send a ship through safely instead of shooting it. ''If'' you can get past the black hole flanking its exit point.}}

*** Which you can if your pilot is [[Handicapped Badass|Joker]].

** Which you can if your pilot is [[Handicapped Badass|Joker]].

*** There's also Korlus, the shipbreaking planet where Grunt is recruited.

** There's also Korlus, the shipbreaking planet where Grunt is recruited.

* The Sirius star system in ''Sol-Feace'' has several ship components -- including a large sheet of fuselage -- that come careening towards the player's starship, all of which can be shot back and redirected with opposing fire.

* ''[[Prehistoric Isle|Prehistoric Isle in 1930]]'' features this in the second part of the underwater level, showing all the ships that have gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle.

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** Although apparently the only reason the Bermuda Triangle accumulates shipwrecks is because so many shipping lanes pass through it. Statistically, it's actually safer than the rest of the ocean.

** Subverted with quiet, methodical, bludgeoning research by [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle#Larry_Kusche Larry Kusche in ''The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved''] where he discovers that while there are genuine mysteries most disappearances either happened well outside the Bermuda Triangle, occurred during a time of bad weather, the start of the search was delayed, had a number of plausible explanations, wreckage was found, the vessel never existed and/or [[Did Not Do the Research|it was reported missing but eventually got home safely]]!

** Subversion then averted by Gian Quasar on both his [http://www.bermuda-triangle.org Bermuda Triangle website] and ''Into the Bermuda Triangle'', where he uses equally calm, tenacious, scalpal-detailed research to demonstrate that Kusche's book was probably one of the worst-researched in the history of publishing, and that for all the mistakenly 'missing' ships that are used to gloss the rest over, no one has still been able to provide explanations for such luminary unexplained disappearaces as the B-52 ''Pogo 22'', during a ''nuclear attack preparedness exercise'', the pleasure yacht ''Witchcraft'' while ''in sight of the shoreline'', or the private plane of Peter Jensen, disappearing off a radar scope while in climb past 30,000 ft. (something literally impossible via the laws of physics/light waves).

* Large concentrations of sunken ships can occur in Real Life. Naval battles are one reason (such as "Ironbottom Sound" off Guadalcanal, rumored to be lined with the hulks of so many sunken ships a magnetic compass is useless), mass scuttlings another, such as when the German High Seas Fleet was [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_Sound scuttled at Scapa Flow] at the end of [[World War One]].

* This is actually true of the aptly- named Ironbottom Sound. Fifty or so ships went down in fierce battles. It is said that a compass will deflect off true north at least twice on any trip across the sound, sometimes as many as five times.

* This is actually true of the aptly-named Ironbottom Sound. Fifty or so ships went down in fierce battles. It is said that a compass will deflect off true north at least twice on any trip across the sound, sometimes as many as five times.

* The area off Cape Hatteras in North Carolina is referred to as "The Graveyard of the Atlantic" with good reason, having a remarkably high shipwreck density; partially because of the ever-shifting sandbank known as Diamond Shoals, and partially because of German U-boats during two World Wars.

** Also the hurricanes and other storms which regularly sweep through the area.