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So you're looking for a lost treasure ship on the bottom of the ocean. Good thing that [[Water Is Air|the ocean is a perfect preservative]]. Oh, it might have some barnacles and coral here and there, maybe some parts have collapsed, but that may have happened when it was sunk. Heck, it probably still has tattered sails! It'll be sitting slightly to one side, but still mostly upright.
Not so in the real world. In the real world, water, particularly salt water, and especially warm salt water as seen in most pirate-frequented areas, wreaks havoc on anything immersed in it for too long. Just look at the continued decay of the Titanic or ships sunk during [[World War II]]. A wooden ship in salt water would be [
Often an excuse for a [[Gang Plank Galleon]]; ubiquitous in the [[Derelict Graveyard]]. Can also be a [[Ghost Ship]].
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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.
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