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** ''Sargasso of Space'': a Forerunner installation on the planet Limbo had dragged many ships to their destruction over the eons.
** ''Web of the [[Witch World]]'': The harbor in Sippar.
** ''Uncharted Stars'': the [[Thieves' Guild]] base at Waystar, mentioned in a number of other books, turns out to be a space station now surrounded by closely-packed derelicts apparently towed into place as a kind of camouflage.
* Sabriel, in the first ''[[Old Kingdom]]'' book, lands her Paperwing coincidentally in a ship's graveyard. But not any ship's graveyard: this one is not underwater, but underground, and enchanted heavily to protect it, because it is full of the burial ships of kings. As such, there's nothing harmful lurking in the ship grounds itself, but she does find a [[Human Popsicle]] that needs rescuing while she's there.
* The ''[[Katanas Are Just Better|Katana]]'' fleet in [[Timothy Zahn]]'s novel ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy|Dark Force Rising]]'' is a lost fleet of warships that had blindly jumped into hyperspace years ago, after a hive virus drove the entire crew of each vessel insane. One of the main characters knew where it was and had been selling them off one at a time, and after the heroes saved him from Thrawn he decided to show them where the others were. But as it turned out, Thrawn already knew, and he stole a march on them by first taking all the remaining functional ships, then setting a trap.
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* Moonbase Alpha passes through one of these in an episode of ''[[Space: 1999]]''; it is infested with an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
* Several examples in ''[[Life After People]]''.
* In the ''[[
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** Gloomy Galleon from ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' also had a large number of wrecked ships.
* You can discover one of these in ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' for profit.
** There is also an entire region you can explore named the Dark Rift, (''Sargasso'' in the original Japanese release) which is probably a [[Shout
* ''[[Endless Ocean]]'' features one of these for its final bonus area. You can pet baby great white sharks there!
** ''[[Endless Ocean]] 2'' has the Ciceros Strait region, which hosts quite a few shipwrecks. [[Darker and Edgier|Adult great white sharks will attack you there!]]
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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]]!
* 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 [
* 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.
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