History Main / ShipShapeShipwreck

* ''Literature/{{Mermaids}}'': In ''Rani's Sea Spell'', Rani's family goes to visit Miriam's mother, who still lives in the same shipwreck where Miriam grew up. After decades at the bottom of the sea, the ship is still intact, besides holes the merfolk use as doors. [[spoiler:The roof finally caves in during a party, but Rani uses the sea-spell to repair the damage, making the shipwreck shipshape again.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', they explore a perfectly-preserved shipwreck to look for missing toxic waste. [[AvertedTrope However, it had only been sunk the previous night.]]

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.

* 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 "clean-up".

* In the very first episode of the 2005 ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' anime, "The Fishing Pond in My Studying Room", Doraemon and Nobita try to escape from a shark in the ocean and find a sunken ship to hide in. The wrecked ship is noticeably battered but is sitting perfectly upright.
* One such wreck appears in the underwater-set Doraemon film, ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheCastleOfTheUnderseaDevil'', where the gang explores... and comes across the skeleton of the deceased captain which gives Gian and Suneo a JumpScare.

* Downplayed in ''Recap/TintinRedRackhamsTreasure'', where the wreck of the ''Unicorn'' is in passable condition, three hundred years after it sank. Only the figurehead (and three-hundred-year-old rum) is removed from the wreck.
* In ''[[ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire Athena Voltaire and the Isle of the Dead]]'', the wreck of the ''Devil's Hand'' is reasonably intact despite having sunk in the Atlantic over a hundred years ago. The damage to the ship (dynamite is required to access the hold) is attributed to the people who sank it, rather than the ocean.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman''

* Jolly Roger Bay, the third course in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' where Mario has to make a sunken ship rise to the ocean surface to gain a Power Star. The warp painting leading to the course ''is'' a sunken ship.

* Jolly Roger Bay, the third course in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' where Mario has to make a sunken ship rise to the ocean surface to gain a Power Star. The painting leading to the course is a sunken ship.

* Jolly Roger Bay in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' where Mario has to make a sunken ship rise to the ocean surface to gain a Power Star.

* Jolly Roger Bay in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''.

* HIJMS ''Yamato'', despite exploding, being blown into two pieces, and being thoroughly and definitively sunk by around twenty bomb and torpedo hits off Okinawa in 1945, remains in good enough condition to be converted into a [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato space battleship]] centuries later. [[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato2199 The remake]] quietly glossed over this plot point, and implied the Yamato was a completely new-built warship ''disguised'' as a derelict wreck.

* The ghost ships in ''Literature/GoingPostal''. They essentially work on the assumption that WaterIsAir and the ships sink to a depth they can "float" at, instead of all the way to the bottom. However, they do ''eventually'' disintegrate.

* ''VideoGame/HostileWatersAntaeusRising'' makes an effort to play this as straight as possible while also subverting it. Antaeus Cruiser 00 is in remarkably good condition after spending 20 years on the ocean bed. It manages to surface and set sailing just fine despite the long rest. Thankfully, nothing essential got damaged too badly, so after a visit in a dry dock the ship is at (or at least, near) full operational capacity, though they are signs she never gets as good as new. 00's sister ship, 04 isn't as lucky. She doesn't wake from her nap on the ocean bed. They justify this through the use of advanced nanotechnology. Both 00 and 04 have creation engines on board with trillions of the little things, which would have repaired 04, too, if it had received the signal.