User blog comment:Diego Brando/Phantom Blood (Doubt about coffin)/@comment-72.49.168.136-20141126062708

Everybody who says there were 2 coffins: No there weren't. They even show a scene where they load it onto the boat and you can clearly see there is only one. It's a plothole plain and simple. Araki really didn't even need to have DIO be in the coffin, because he's a vampire... he should be able to survive an explosion... hell, even if his head got chopped off by shrapnel or something he could just reattach it, and he could just drink some blood to heal any wounds from it... lots of dead bodies around to drink from after a ship sinks

I think Araki only did it to be more dramatic, but he screwed up. It's really not that important though