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The Abandoned or Sunken Ship is a common location in video games, especially action-adventure and RPGs. These are based on the real event of shipwrecks, when a ship either sinks at sea or crashes onto land. Occasionally the wrecked ship was a spaceship, not an ocean-faring vessel.

Abandoned ships more often than not have air in them, despite the fact that this would make the wreck float. This is because the game's characters typically cannot breathe water, and it is simpler to ignore physics (see video game physics) than shoehorn an explanation for gills or a scuba suit into the plot.

Abandoned ships tend to be populated with water- and undead-themed enemies, especially pirates and zombies. The enemies are either the remants of the crew, or whatever oceanic monsters might be using the ship as a haven. These ships are also often filled with sunken treasure in the form of items and money.

A partial list of famous abandoned ships in video games appears below:

One appears as an optional dungeon in Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald.
An abandoned ship on the sea floor holds a map with the location of a piece of the Triforce
in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
Many sunken ships are scattered about the bottom of the sea in Final Fantasy Legend III.
In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, there are several sunken ships scattered around Vvardenfell
.
Super Mario 64 features a level with a sunken ship, Jolly Roger Bay.
Super Metroid has the Wrecked Ship, a crashed and flooded spacecraft. A different but similar ship appears in Metroid Prime.
The last level of Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor is a sunken UFO.

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