Shipwreck
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This article is about the physical remains of a wrecked ship. For the event resulting in a ship being wrecked, see Shipwrecking. For other uses, see Shipwreck (disambiguation).
A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be intentional or unintentional. There were approximately three million shipwrecks worldwide as of January 1999, according to Angela Croome, a science writer and author who specialized in the history of underwater archaeology [1] (an estimate rapidly endorsed by UNESCO[2][3] and other organizations[4]).
The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (May 2023) |
When a ship's crew has died or abandoned the ship, and the ship has remained adrift but unsunk, they are instead referred to as ghost ships.