History Main / SinkingShipScenario

* All adaptations of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'' disaster feature this, but the [[Film/{{Titanic 1997}} James Cameron version]] in particular.

* ''Film/PearlHarbor'' has the USS ''Oklahoma'' capsizing, showing the fates of the sailors both above and below deck.
* ''Film/USSIndianapolisMenOfCourage'' has the titular US Cruiser sunk by a Japanese submarine, with most of the surviving crew members dying of exposure, shark attack, and dehydration in 5 days.

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* ''Film/PearlHarbor'' has the the USS ''Oklahoma'' capsizing, showing the fates of the sailors both above and below deck.

Subtrope of FightToSurvive. Can be used as a plot for a BottleEpisode, as it can be used to craft a tense episode without having to craft new sets. Often includes at least one LockedInARoom scenario when the power to the doors fails. May lead to a ColdEquation. While it often goes hand in hand with AbandonShip, [[IThoughtItMeant it usually has nothing to do with]] ShipSinking.

Subtrope of FightToSurvive. Can be used as a plot for a BottleEpisode, as it can be used to craft a tense episode without having to craft new sets. Often includes at least one LockedInARoom scenario when the power to the doors fails. May lead to a ColdEquation. While it often goes hand in hand with AbandonShip, [[IThoughtItMeant it has absolutely nothing to do with]] ShipSinking.

* "Toys in the Attic" in ''Anime/CowboyBebop''
* "Pokemon Shipwreck" in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''

* PlayedForLaughs in Jonah a comic strip from the [[BritishComics British]] AnthologyComic ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' each week Jonah would manage to attempt to board a ship and then accidentally cause it to sink.

* The first chapter of ''Literature/SeaFire'' has Literature/JamesBond and his current girlfriend stopping a takeover of a cruise ship by RuthlessModernPirates. An explosion caused by a [[spoiler:misfired torpedo from BigBad's submarine]] rocks the boat in the next chapter, and it goes bottom of the sea.
* One episode of MissionLevity deals with the crew having to board a broken space ship and turn off the TractorBeam linking it to the ''Levity'' before both ships burn up in the atmosphere.

* "Fire in Space" in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}''.
** [[ContinuityNod And reworked]] as ''Valley Of Darkness'' in the [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 reimagined series]].
* "Disaster" in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
* "Out of Gas" in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' (a combination Poseidon[=/=]HowWeGotHere episode)
* "Starship Down" in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
* "42" and "Voyage of the Damned" in ''Series/DoctorWho'', which is ''The Poseidon Adventure [-[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-]
* "Inside the Spaceship" (a.k.a. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction The Edge of Destruction]]") in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
* "No Exit" on ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred''.

* {{SOS}}, a SNES game is almost ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'' The Game, with a similarly capsized ocean liner that must be evacuated through the bottom of the ship.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}''
* In the first mission of ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 4: VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', the ship is bombed by enemy planes and you have to run through the flooding and collapsing cargo hold to get topside, where you must make a LeapOfFaith to a helicopter.

* ''Film/{{U571}}'', in which the crew of an American submarine must escape to the German sub they just stole a decoding machine from, when their own boat is sunk. Everything is labelled and documented in German, making it next to impossible to use the controls.

* {{SOS}}, a SNES game is almost ''ThePoseidonAdventure'' The Game, with a similarly capsized ocean liner that must be evacuated through the bottom of the ship.

* "The Posei-dam Adventure" in ''TheAngryBeavers'', combined with ChainedHeat to explain why there would be peril in the first place. Beavers can hold their breath for 15 minutes, you know, but ''shrews'' can't.

* PlayedForLaughs in Jonah a comic strip from the [[BritishComics British]] AnthologyComic ''TheBeano'' each week Jonah would manage to attempt to board a ship and then accidentally cause it to sink.

* ''{{Ever17}}''

* All adaptations of the ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'' disaster feature this, but the [[Film/{{Titanic}} James Cameron version]] in particular.

* In ''Literature/LifeOfPi'', a cargo ship sinks in a heavy storm at night with a few people desperately trying to get into the lifeboats. Ultimately, Pi becomes the SoleSurvivor and sets off in his lifeboat, accompanied by a monkey, a hyena, a zebra and a tiger.

* The first chapter of ''Literature/SeaFire'' has Literature/JamesBond and his current girlfriend stopping a takover of a cruise ship by RuthlessModernPirates. An explosion caused by a [[spoiler:misfired torpedo from BigBad's submarine]] rocks the boat in the next chapter, and it goes bottom of the sea.

* "Fire in Space" in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Classic}}''.
** [[ContinuityNod And reworked]] as ''Valley Of Darkness'' in the [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined reimagined series]].

* In ''Literature/LifeOfPi'', a cargo ship sinks in a heavy storm at night with a few people desperately trying to get into the lifeboats. Ultimately, Pi becomes the SoleSurviver and sets off in his lifeboat, accompanied by a monkey, a hyena, a zebra and a tiger.

* In the first mission of ''CallOfDuty 4: ModernWarfare'', the ship is bombed by enemy planes and you have to run through the flooding and collapsing cargo hold to get topside, where you must make a LeapOfFaith to a helicopter.

* "Toys in the Attic" in ''CowboyBebop''

* ''ThePerfectStorm'', based on a true story. In this case, there were no survivors.

Subtrope of FightToSurvive. Can be used as a plot for a BottleEpisode, as it can be used to craft a tense episode without having to craft new sets. Often includes at least one LockedInARoom scenario when the power to the doors fails. While it often goes hand in hand with AbandonShip, [[IThoughtItMeant it has absolutely nothing to do with]] ShipSinking.

Can be used as a plot for a BottleEpisode, as it can be used to craft a tense episode without having to craft new sets. Often includes at least one LockedInARoom scenario when the power to the doors fails. While it often goes hand in hand with AbandonShip, [[IThoughtItMeant it has absolutely nothing to do with]] ShipSinking.

* ''Film/{{U-571}}'', in which the crew of an American submarine must escape to the German sub they just stole a decoding machine from, when their own boat is sunk. Everything is labelled and documented in German, making it next to impossible to use the controls.

* All adaptations of the ''Titanic'' disaster feature this, but the [[Film/{{Titanic}} James Cameron version]] in particular.

* ''ThePoseidonAdventure'' and its 2006 remake ''Film/{{Poseidon}}'': May be seen as the template for film portrayals of the scenario for decades to follow.
* ''{{Apollo 13}}''.

* ''Pirate Radio''
* The submarine at the end of ''TheWorldIsNotEnough'' and its [[LicensedGame video game adaptation]].

* ''MassEffect2'' opens with Shepard struggling to save Joker (the pilot) as the ''Normandy'' burns.