Sandship

The Sandship is the 5th dungeon in Skyward Sword. The main item obtained is the Bow and its boss is Tentalus.

Entrance to the Ship
The Sandship, once captained by Skipper, is a mechanical galleon that protects Nayru's Flame, and is able to cloak itself. However, it was taken by pirates in search of the Sacred Flame on a stormy day ages ago, so Link and Skipper search through Skipper's Retreat, the Shipyard, and the Pirate Stronghold to find clues to the ship's location. At the Pirate Stronghold they finally find broken pieces of the ship, allowing Fi to dowse for it. Skipper explains that the Sandship will still be sailing the Sand Sea, cloaked and invisible to the eye, but that attacking it with his own boat's onboard cannon will damage the Sandship enough that the cloaking will fail and the ship will stop. Link and Skipper hunt down the Sandship, and after enough bombardment from the cannon, the ship stops and Link boards it.

Themes and Navigation
The Sandship's center mast contains a Timeshift Stone which, when activated, encompasses the entire ship and the surrounding area. The dungeon also features many Eye Switches.

To free the ship's crew, Link must use the Timeshift Stone to alternate between past and present to navigate the ship and reach the generators. Once the generators have been turned on and the ship's crew have been freed, they give Link the key to the Captain's Cabin, where the control room key, the Squid Carving, lies. Upon entering the control room, Fi notes that the ship seems to be under attack by a monster of considerable size, and recommends that Link exits to further access the situation. Link has to fend off large tentacles using Skyward Strikes to clear a path to reach the deck. Once Link reaches the deck of the Sandship the culprit of the attack, the Abbysal Leviathan Tentalus, reveals itself.

After the boss fight the ship is nearly completely destroyed by Tentalus, but Skipper and his crew quickly repair it and continue to sail the seas.

Enemies

 * Aracha
 * Beamos
 * Bokoblins
 * Electro Spume
 * Technoblin
 * Thunder Keese

Trivia

 * After Link activates the Timeshift Stone, a door locks. Then he has to open the door with a switch. After that, Skipper appears and tells him he has too rescue the crew. But the entrance ladder is blocked by electricity, and the crew was trapped behind a wall of electricity, so Skipper should not have been able to get on the deck.
 * If Link returns to the ship once it is rebuilt, he can not enter the control room because he is not authorized.