Naval war grave
A naval war grave is a war cemetery in sea waters . Often there are wrecks of sea vessels from which fallen soldiers were not recovered due to the circumstances, but remained there.
Naval war graves are protected from salvage and looting by international laws and regulations such as the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986 .
Well-known civil naval war graves are the wreck of the RMS Lusitania off the south coast of Ireland and the wreck of the Wilhelm Gustloff in the eastern Baltic Sea . The Gustloff holds more than 9,000 dead passengers and crew members .