In 1939, the wreck of the Eagle was exposed when Magnus Völler used the Staff of Kings to part the seas. Indiana Jones, who was chasing Völler on a motorcycle, saw the shipwreck but couldn't stop to investigate it. After Jones recovered the staff and defeated Völler, the waters of the sea returned to cover over the shipwreck. Jones later made a brief note about the ship and the likely fate of its imprisoned passengers in his journal.