The Most Beautiful Shipwrecks From Around The World

Minimal Decay

Built in 1974, the MS World Discoverer was a cruise ship that would travel to the Antarctic polar regions so that passengers could observe ice floe movements. Then in 2000, bad weather caused the ship to hit a reef off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. After all of the passengers were rescued by a ferry, the captain grounded the ship on Roderick Bay. The ship was then looted by locals and soon declared unsalvageable. It still remains, lying on its side, half submerged, not yet too damaged by decay.