Here's a gallery featuring hundreds of photos of container-ship wrecks. Some of these shots are breathtaking — container ships are the Brobdingnagian behemoths of the sea, and when they heel over, it's like a city block's worth of skyscrapers all lying down on their sides at once. For an idea of where these wrecks are headed, see these shots of a fifty-year-old wreck that beached on the Great Barrier Reef. I dived the wreck last year and I'll never forget it. The above-water portions had rusted away until they looked like a scabrous metal Parthenon, while on the ocean-bottom, giant schools of meter-long parrotfish danced around a propeller-shaft as tall as a house.
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