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Often an excuse for a [[Gang Plank Galleon]]; ubiquitous in the [[Derelict Graveyard]]. Can also be a [[Ghost Ship]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Averted in ''[[Tintin/Recap/Red Rackham's Treasure|Red Rackham's Treasure]]'', where the wreck of the Unicorn has decayed considerably.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[The Goonies]]'', One-Eyed Willie's 350-year-old pirate ship actually sails out onto the open seas at the end. While the ship is not submerged, it has been sitting in water for three centuries in a wet, brackish cavern with lots of moisture dripping from stalactites. Aside from the skeleton of Willie, the ship and even its sails appear to be in fairly good condition.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* The [[wikipedia:Vasa (ship)|Vasa]], a fine example of royal idiocy, sank in the harbor in 1627. Said harbor is in the Baltic, an in-water sea that's brackish rather than seawater salty and is therefore free of the shipworm. The ship was salvaged in 1961 and is on display.▼
* Thanks to mitigating factors including a shorter time frame and the cooler waters of the English Channel, a Sherman tank known to have fallen into the ocean during the D-Day invasion was salvaged for the 50th anniversary commemoration. It cleaned up nicely enough to fire live rounds. For "decades of seawater" levels of "cleanup."▼
* The Dead Sea, on the other hand, is so salty that it preserves things due to the fact that very few things that would eat away at wrecks survive. A relatively recent expedition unearthed an ancient wooden ship in almost perfect condition.▼
* The Great Lakes are fresh water so the wrecks of ships, even those of wooden sailing ships a couple of centuries old, are amazingly well-preserved.▼
* The [[wikipedia:Black Sea|Black Sea]] has two distinctive layers. The deeper layer is very anoxic and nothing can live in it. Ancient ships that sunk near or under that layer--as well as signs of settlements from when the Sea was a freshwater lake--are found almost perfectly preserved.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The climax of Disney's ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' had Ursula control the weather and raise a veritable ''fleet'' of derelict wooden sailing ships. Prince Eric is even able to gain control of one and steer it.
* In ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', they explore a perfectly-preserved shipwreck to look for missing toxic waste. [[Averted Trope|However, it had only been sunk the previous night.]]
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* The [[wikipedia:Vasa (ship)|Vasa]], a fine example of royal idiocy, sank in the harbor in 1627. Said harbor is in the Baltic, an in-water sea that's brackish rather than seawater salty and is therefore free of the shipworm. The ship was salvaged in 1961 and is on display.
▲* Thanks to mitigating factors including a shorter time frame and the cooler waters of the English Channel, a Sherman tank known to have fallen into the ocean during the D-Day invasion was salvaged for the 50th anniversary commemoration. It cleaned up nicely enough to fire live rounds. For "decades of seawater" levels of "cleanup."
▲* The Dead Sea, on the other hand, is so salty that it preserves things due to the fact that very few things that would eat away at wrecks survive. A relatively recent expedition unearthed an ancient wooden ship in almost perfect condition.
▲* The Great Lakes are fresh water so the wrecks of ships, even those of wooden sailing ships a couple of centuries old, are amazingly well-preserved.
▲* The [[wikipedia:Black Sea|Black Sea]] has two distinctive layers. The deeper layer is very anoxic and nothing can live in it. Ancient ships that sunk near or under that
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