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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 layer—as well as signs of settlements from when the Sea was a freshwater lake—are found almost perfectly preserved.
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