Location from Worm by Wildbow
A stretch of Brockton Bay's waterfront where decommissioned ships were beached and abandoned after the shipping industry collapsed. Eerie, dangerous, and haunted by the city's failure.
The Boat Graveyard is Brockton Bay's most visible wound. When the shipping industry died, the city couldn't afford to remove the vessels. They were beached, stripped of anything valuable, and left to rot. The result is a surreal maritime cemetery stretching along the waterfront. The ships create a maze of rusted corridors and flooded holds that only the desperate or foolish enter. Homeless people shelter in the more accessible vessels. Drug deals happen in the shadows of listing hulls. The area is technically city property but functionally lawless. At low tide, the exposed mud flats stink of decay. At high tide, the water shifts the wrecks, producing deep metallic groans that carry across the Docks at night.
Massive cargo ships and tankers lie half-submerged or beached at impossible angles along the shoreline. Rust streaks down their hulls like dried blood. Masts and superstructures jut from the water at tilted angles. The water is murky, full of debris and oil sheens. Gulls roost on every available surface. The scale is disorienting — each ship is a building-sized corpse.
Also known as: the Graveyard, ship graveyard