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No relation to the 2015 [[WesternAnimation/TheDeep animated series]].

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No relation to [[WesternAnimation/TheDeep2015 the 2015 [[WesternAnimation/TheDeep animated series]].
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[[caption-width-right:325:No points for guessing [[SexSells why this is the poster image]].]]

''The Deep'' is 1977 adventure/thriller film adapted from Creator/PeterBenchley's novel of the same name, directed by Creator/PeterYates.

Creator/NickNolte (in his first major big-screen role) and Creator/JacquelineBisset star as David Sanders and Gail Berke, young lovers on vacation in UsefulNotes/{{Bermuda}} who discover sunken treasure... and morphine. Complications ensue.

Also stars Creator/RobertShaw as Romer Treece, Creator/LouisGossettJr as Henri Cloche, and Creator/EliWallach as Adam Coffin.

No relation to the 2015 [[WesternAnimation/TheDeep animated series]].

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!! This work contains examples of these tropes:

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[spoiler: Kevin is TheMole in the book but a stalwart ally in the film.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: Coffin is only a BitchInSheepsClothing in the film. In the book he is a dependable ally with fatherly feelings toward Treece.
* BitchInSheepsClothing:
** Henri "Cloche" Bondurant introduces himself in a polite and gracious way while offering to buy an artifact David and Gail found for supposedly harmless reasons. When they decline to deal with him, he has them kidnapped, threatens to cut David's tongue out, and subjects Gail to a ShamefulStrip.
** Coffin is introduced as a kindly old sea dog who is fairly tranquil about working a menial job, happily provides the main trio with information about the ''Goliath'', and says he wants to recover the bodies of his dead shipmates onboard the wreck. Once he actually starts working with the main trio, it becomes clear that he's willing to betray and endanger them for the valuable morphine in the cargo hold.
* CompositeCharacter: Cloche has a slightly expanded presence and his role envelops those of minor book villains like the man who tries to buy the first vial of morphine and [[spoiler:the diver who is killed by a moray eel.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Coffin isn't a very reliable ally, but he looks shocked when he sees Bondurant's men chumming the waters so that sharks will endanger the three main characters during their diving trip.
* {{Fanservice}}: Both ways in the opening titles, with Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset skin-diving, Nolte in very small and very tight shorts and Bisset in [[BarelyThereSwimwear tiny black bikini bottoms]] and [[SexySoakedShirt white T-shirt]].
* ForcedToWatch: One of Cloche's goons pins David to the wall with a knife at his throat while Gail is given a PervyPatdown and forced into a ShamefulStrip.
* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: When salty treasure hunter Treece finds out that David and Gail have found a wreck he's heavily interested in, he asks who else knows about it. After a moment's pause, they truthfully reply that a local man named Bondurant has approached them about the wreck. However, it quickly becomes clear that Treece is a hero (or at least an AntiHero) and Bondurant is a ruthless crime lord.
* IHaveThisFriend: David is pretty transparent when he tells Treece about his "friend" who found a 1714 coin.
* MsFanservice: Creator/JacquelineBisset as Gail hits pretty much every trope on the list, from NavelDeepNeckline to ToplessnessFromTheBack, with assorted stops at bared midriffs, LegFocus, and most famously, SexySoakedShirt (see below).
* NeverSplitTheParty: Gail gets some flak over how she first dives into a sunken ship (which David yells at her for -- as well as he can underwater, at least), then wanders away from him to explore, violating the buddy system. The result? She nearly loses her arm and drowns when attacked by a moray eel.
* PervyPatdown: When Cloche and his goons kidnap David and Gail, one of them ''really'' enjoys frisking her for the morphine bottle.
* RaceLift: Treece and Kevin seem to be of purely European descent. In the book, they are descendants of Native American exiles and look it.
* SexySoakedShirt: One of the most iconic examples ever, courtesy Jacqueline Bisset going diving in a T-shirt. With no bra underneath. The poster above is actually rather tame in comparison to the opening scene of the film, which is nearly nine minutes long and features extended shots of Bisset swimming around underwater in said T-shirt.
* ShamefulStrip: As if giving her a PervyPatdown wasn't bad enough, Cloche makes Gail remove her white button-down shirt. ''And'' the bikini top she was wearing under it.
* SilenceIsGolden: The opening scene, where David and Gail are diving around the wreck and finding various artifacts, and Gail is going down in history as the all-time champion of SexySoakedShirt, runs nearly nine minutes without any dialogue.
* SlipperyAsAnEel: A moray eel has made the wreck its home, presenting a potentially-lethal challenge to anyone trying to dive it.
* SoleSurvivor: Coffin is the only survivor of the sinking of the ''Goliath'' and is interested in salvaging the wreck now that it's been found.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the book, [[spoiler: Treece loads his boat with explosives and rams Cloche’s boat after the salvage job, killing both men. In the film, Cloche dies earlier, in the underwater fight, and Treece survives.]]
* UngratefulBastard: Treece [[spoiler:saved Coffin's life when he "washed up on the beach" after the ''Goliath'' sunk, but Cofflin is willing to betray and endanger him during the treasure hunt.]]
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