Unlike the images found in films, comics and video games, real wrecks are not treasure chests filled with skeletons. Underwater, they primarily become habitats for marine life: fish, crustaceans and attached organisms colonise their surfaces and cavities, turning human remains into unique ecosystems.

Many wrecks are boats, but the sea also conceals other sunken relics: aircraft, tanks, vehicles and even industrial structures. Over time, all become surfaces on which life can settle. Aircraft wings draped in algae, engines covered in sponges, cabins turned into fish shelters: this variety of shapes offers countless ecological niches. Whether they came from the sky, land or sea, these remains eventually disappear beneath the same living covering.