Famous shipwrecks that remain missing — and a few that have been found

But scores more sunken vessels remain on the ocean floor, awaiting rediscovery.

Here are some of the world’s most infamously elusive shipwrecks, plus a few you can see for yourself (some without even getting wet).

Santa Maria, Haiti

That’s one theory, anyway. However the Italian explorer’s ship met its fate, excitement bubbled over in May 2014, when archaeologist Barry Clifford claimed he’d chanced upon its long-lost wreck.

The Santa Maria is still down there, somewhere.

Flor de la Mar, Sumatra

Perhaps it was only a matter of time before the Flor de la Mar went down, which it did in a heavy storm off Sumatra, Indonesia in 1511.

Most of the crew perished, and its booty — said to include the entire personal fortune of a Portuguese governor, worth a cool $2.6 billion in today’s money — was lost.

SS Waratah, Durban (South Africa)

It may not have its own theme song sung by Celine Dion, but the SS Waratah is known as “Australia’s Titanic” — and for good reason.

A passenger cargo ship built to travel between Europe and Australia with a stopover in Africa, the Waratah disappeared shortly after steaming off from the city of Durban in present-day South Africa in 1909 — just three years before the Titanic tragedy. As for the cause, theories abound.

The entire liner,…