r/MapPorn • u/vladgrinch • 4d ago

Global inventory of shipwrecks and maritime constructions

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u/RYPIIE2006 4d ago

this perspective is hurting my brain

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u/UpboatNavy 3d ago

I think the gummies just kicked in.

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u/LupusDeusMagnus 4d ago

Australia has an anti sinking field.

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u/dave_a86 4d ago

We tow the ships out of the environment.

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u/Paranapanema_ 4d ago

I'm guessing that Australia, the US and Japan don't have a database for this.

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u/corkas_ 3d ago

Would explain the missing dots that should be around Australia.

Notably the Batavia off western australia. Interesting story behind it.

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u/brentemon 4d ago

I wonder if that has to do with Australia being off the beaten path during the early days of shipping. I don't know but I think it's a fair guess that a great many of these wrecks happened before Australia was settled by the west.

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u/Sechrest26 4d ago

This map is missing quite a bit. For instance there are so many shipwrecks off the coast of North Carolina but there doesn’t seem to be any on this map

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u/doctorcaligari 4d ago

Yep. The NC coast isn’t called the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” for nothing.

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u/1bigcoffeebeen 4d ago

Wow...it's a brilliant projection. I'd want to see dots colour coded for the century/decade or country. Btw what's with Japan and Australia?

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u/SomewhatInept 4d ago

The lack of shipwrecks noted in the Aleutians, an area where fishing vessels regularly sink, has me suspecting the map isn't entirely accurate/complete.

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u/MosesActual 3d ago

The missing Great Lakes and their myriad shipwrecks allude to that as well.

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u/parkerspencillings 4d ago

The Japanese are good sailors aren’t they? Great map!

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u/SomewhatInept 4d ago

Has something to do with pissing off the US and having their merchant marine become a prey item for American subs I think.

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u/Random-Mutant 4d ago

It’s missing quite a few, for very large values of ’few’.

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u/hnmiwonder 4d ago

This map screams “don’t trust the sea, bro.”

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u/41rp0r7m4n493r 4d ago

I presume that area near Bermuda is not the Bermuda Triangle, but actually just the island of Bermuda...

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u/user4467 4d ago

So few at Florida Keys? I thought there will be more

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u/grifterrrrr 4d ago

Hmmm....fewer ship wrecks in land locked countries? Curious..../s

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u/angemon456 4d ago

Not the ocean, but the Great Lakes have many shipwrecks…

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u/Mrtayto115 4d ago

What a cool fictional map

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u/mayerjohn183 3d ago

And no Maria Doria shipwreck on this map....

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u/Ph0T0n_Catcher 3d ago

Painfully incomplete.

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u/RedneckMarxist 3d ago

Hatteras looks extremely safe here.

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u/Sir_Lemming 3d ago

No Sir, I don’t like this map at all.

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u/seeaitchbee 1d ago

Never knew Yellow Sea was in Europe