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DMZ Dark Water guide: Cartel Warehouse Key location

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This Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 guide provides a walkthrough of the DMZ Dark Water mission and details the Cartel Warehouse Key location.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 Season 3 is now well underway. It brought many changes to the popular game. Some of these have been well-received while others haven’t.

However, one mode that undoubtedly benefitted was DMZ. It received brand new features and equipment, as well as a fresh selection of missions for players to enjoy.

The new missions come in the form of the ‘Redacted’ faction. In the Tier 2 Redacted mission called “Dark Water”, players must find a key to the cartel warehouse on the “eastern-most sunken ship”. Once you have the key, you need to retrieve and extract a cartel laptop from the warehouse.

Image showing the mission description for the DMZ Dark Water mission.
Mission description.

However, finding which ship the key is on is proving tricky for some players. And it’s even trickier to get the key once you’re on the ship.

The DMZ Dark Water guide below provides a full mission walkthrough and details the Cartel Warehouse Key location.

DMZ Dark Water guide

Where to find a Rebreather in DMZ

Rebreathers are essential in Dark Water. That’s not just because acquiring a Rebreather is the mission’s first objective. The Cartel Warehouse Key is deep underwater, so you won’t be able to safely retrieve it without one.

Rebreathers are found in various locations throughout Al Mazrah, but they most commonly appear in wall-mounted First Aid Kits.

Thankfully, the sunken ship also has numerous Rebreathers scattered around. That means you can go to the ship without one and still be able to get the key as long as you collect a Rebreather while you’re there.

Sunken Ship and Cartel Warehouse Key location (DMZ Dark Water)

This is where to find the eastern-most sunken ship and Cartel Warehouse Key in DMZ Dark Water mission:

The eastern-most sunken ship is located at map coordinates E8. It is only partially submerged so is visible on the map, as seen in the image below:

Image of the map in DMZ Dark Water mission showing the location of the Cartel Warehouse Key and Sunken Ship.
Sunken Ship and Cartel Warehouse Key location.

To get the key, swim to the east side of the ship and dive underwater. You will see a large hole in the ship’s hull. Swim through this hole and you will find the Cartel Warehouse Key to your left on a desk.

Image of the hull hole in the side of the Sunken Ship in the DMZ Dark Water mission.
Swim through this hole.
Image showing the Cartel Warehouse Key in DMZ Dark Water mission.

Cartel Warehouse location

The Cartel Warehouse is located at Hafid Port. Check out this Cartel Warehouse location guide for more details on where to find it.

Once you have found the warehouse, use the key to unlock it. These is lots of valuable loot inside, however be sure to collect the Las Almas Laptop which is sat on some shelving in the warehouse.

Image showing the Las Almas cartel laptop in DMZ.
Cartel laptop.

Now you’ve collected the cartel laptop, extract with it and the final mission objective for Dark Water will be complete.

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