How did the battleship sink?
Near the start of Wonder Woman (2017) the Germans, in their pursuit of Steve, stumble across the Amazonian homeland. Outside the magical force-field there is a Battleship that seems to be doing fine. However once the ship breaches the force-field it quickly sinks.
What happened there? Why did it start sinking?
Best Answer
Borrowing from my good friend Valorum's answer on SFF: it had hit the coral reef.
According to the film's official novelisation, as it passed through the barrier, the battle cruiser hit a hidden reef and was holed below the waterline.
Beyond, the enormous ship that had brought the Germans had hit the coral reefs. Black, gritty smoke from the sinking battleship swept across the reef and over the beach. It smelled like it had come from the burning pits of hell.
It then sank.
The battleship couldn't see that there was an island approaching, as the island was sneakily covered by a sneaky fog.
As such it ventured too close and probably at too high a speed to stop in time. And what happens when a large vessel comes too close to an island?
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