Ships can end their life cycle due to old age or their lives can be cut short violently by catastrophic events like groundings, collisions, cargo explosion and fire. Scrapping or recycling of ships after reaching the end of their operational lives will normally be a matter for the owners to arrange. Gard is however, intimately involved in wreck removal operations required by authorities following a casualty. Here we review the considerations and choices Gard makes when confronted with disposal of entered vessels.