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* 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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