Wreck of the Maria Doria - Secret #3 (Gold Dragon)
In the last section we retrieved the CABIN KEY from the fish-infested waters. Now, let's do that again for a secret. (Yay.) SECRET #3, the Gold Dragon (33) is hidden in a small cave in the ceiling of the flooded cavern. To reach it, start out just as you did when going after the key: Stand with Lara's back to the open trapdoor. Hop backward into the water...
...and swim forward and down, avoiding the sharks and barracudas as well as you can. Then, where the seafloor slopes upward again...
...instead of swimming around the corner to the right, as you did when you went after the key, continue straight on.
Enter the cave ahead and look for an angled block protruding from the ceiling in the far right corner. (In remastered graphics, this area glows blue. It's pitch-black with classic graphics.) Swim behind the angled block and up a vertical shaft...
...to a small air-filled cave. Here you'll find the statuette, plus 2 pairs of grenades and the GRENADE LAUNCHER (34-36) if you've found all three secrets.
A WORD OF CAUTION: I highly recommend saving most of your grenades for the last two levels of the game. There are a few enemies there who are quite easily dispatched using grenades and very hard to kill otherwise.
Swim back to the trapdoor the way you came: Down through the vertical shaft...
...straight on to the opening in the rocks to the right of the rusted hull...
...forward and downward into the cave...
...up to the hole in the ceiling on the far right...
...and, finally, up through the trapdoor.
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