History Main / SaharanShipwreck

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* TruthInTelevision: The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea Aral Sea]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad Lake Chad]] were once ''much'' larger than they are now.
* The Mediterranean Sea has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis dried up numerous times]] in its ancient history. Since it's already pretty deep, it would have necessarily exposed the lowest dry land on earth.
* [[UrbanLegend According to legend]] this has happened in real life, [[YourMileageMayVary if you believe the lost cvilization types]]. There are supposed to be lost ships from Atlantis in the North African desert and in the Atlas Mountains, as well as a famous [[HornyVikings Viking longship]](!) in the deserts of the American southwest with skeletons still at the oars.
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* [[UrbanLegend According to legend]] this has happened in real lie, [[YourMileageMayVary if you believe the lost cvilization types]]. There are supposed to be lost ships from Atlantis in the North African desert and in the Atlas Mountains, as well as a famous [[HornyVikings Viking longship]](!) in the deserts of the American southwest with skeletons still at the oars.

** It's ''cargo'' is the most surprising thing. [[spoilers: It's the corpse of Abraham Lincoln. The one shot at Ford theater? was an unwitting double]]

** It's ''cargo'' is the most surprising thing. [[Spoilers: It's the corpse of Abraham Lincoln. The one shot at Ford theater? was an unwitting double]]

* There's a brief shot in the Special Edition of ''CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' which shows a ship in the middle of the Gobi desert. It's supposed to be one of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances.

Not to be confused with AbandonShip.

* The mission "Sangre del Toro" in ''[[BattlefieldSeries Battlefield: Bad Company 2]]'''s story mode revolves around B-Company's search for one of these (the eponymous ''Sangre del Toro'') in the middle of South America's Atacama Desert.

* There are a number of rusted, wrecked barges in {{Stalker}}: Call of Pripyat in previously low-waters that have now turned into swamps and marshes. One is used as a 'town' of sorts, and others are hiding places for other Stalker gangs, or Stalkers trying to find somewhere to rest, away from the [[EverythingTryingToKillYou weather, wildlife, or random blowouts/emissions]].

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* The Black Rock in ''{{Lost}}.''

* One is featured during a mission in [[JustCause Just Cause 2]]. It's a very large tanker in a desert that is very high above sea-level. No explanation is given at all.

[[caption-width:448:There used to be a sea here.]]

* This is one area in ''[=~Pokémon~=] XD''. In this case, you actually see how it got there in the beginning of the game. It was dropped there by Shadow Lugia.

In the BuffyTheVampireSlayer season 8 comics, Willow manages to teleport a ship on the Himalayan mountains. Granted, it's not as dry as the Sahara, but it's probably the farthest you can go from the sea.

* ''[[WallE WALL*E]]'': EVE blows up a couple of these when she gets angry. (WALL*E is set on an Earth humanity abandoned because it got too polluted.