History Main / UnderwaterBase

* The Aquarius Reef Base is an underwater habitat for research. It is 5.4 mi (8.7 km) off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. It is built on the ocean floor 62 ft (19 m) below the surface, next to a coral reef.

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Characters have their base of operations underwater in a domed lair. The glass dome is unrealistic but due to the RuleOfCool, they are common. Somewhat more common with villains, but there are scientific research bases and oil drilling bases in some works. The underwater lair is good for keeping out unwanted visitors. After all, it takes more effort to break in if you have to be looking out for giant squids and sharks at the same time. To get to the base, a submarine is needed.

Characters have their base of operations underwater in a domed lair. The glass dome is unrealistic but due to the RuleOfCool, they are common. Somewhat more common with villains. The underwater lair is good for keeping out unwanted visitors. After all, it takes more effort to break in if you have to be looking out for giant squids and sharks at the same time. To get to the base, a submarine is needed.

Characters have their base of operations underwater. Somewhat more common with villains. Good for keeping out unwanted visitors. After all, it takes more effort to break in if you have to be looking out for giant squids at the same time.

* The movie ''Captain Nemo and the Underwater City'' puts the city of "Templemere" under a dome at the bottom of the ocean, where the submarine ''[[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Nautilus]]'' has its berth. And this is supposedly done during a time when the best technology is Steam powered.

* Stromberg's home in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''.

* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' features one of these as the villains' main base.

* The research base in ''{{Film/Leviathan|1989}}''.
* [[spoiler:The two drilling rigs]] in ''Film/{{Underwater}}''. The reason why the spoiler is there is because [[spoiler:when the protagonists reach the second rig, lost some time prior to the film, they find more evidence that the company they work for is running [[CorruptCorporateExecutive on Weyland-Yutani rules]]: the stuff they drill is much more important to them than their lives and [[EldritchAbomination potentially those of the entire human race]].]]

-->-- '''{{WesternAnimation/Sealab 2021}}'''

* The ''Series/{{UFO}}'' episode "Reflections in the Water" had an underwater alien base.

* So did Dr. Drakken of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.

* The research station from ''Literature/{{Sphere}}''.

* ''[[ComicBook/Superboy1994 Superboy Volume 4]]'': The villainous Silicon Dragons' base is an elaborate underwater affair off the coast of Maui that gets flooded section by section as Superboy and the ComicBook/SuicideSquad infiltrate it.
* In ''Comicbook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'' Comicbook/LexLuthor has a mobile submarine base (until Franchise/{{Superman}} destroys it).
* Franchise/{{Superman}} established an undersea Fortress in the Sargasso Sea in ''Comicbook/ActionComics'' #244, but he abandoned it shortly after.
* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} got her own undersea base -- called Sanctuary -- in ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 2011}} Supergirl Volume 6]]'' #12. Unfortunately it got blown up in issue #20.
* Plenty of these have shown up in ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} stories. For example, Dr. Stephen Shin worked at a research station called Triton Base.
* In ''ComicBook/SuperSons'', Batman and Superman gift one of these to Jon and Damian after they proved their ability to work as a team. It comes with everything: weight rooms for training, a supercomputer for analysis, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a mini-fridge for snacks.]]

* Brother Blood designs one on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' after Cyborg destroyed his first headquarters. Cyborg destroys this one, too.

* Wolverine is trapped in one in ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''.

* ''VideoGame/DeepFear'' is essentially "''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', [[RecycledINSPACE but in an underwater military base!]]", although it does make use of the setting update, mainly by adding the lack of oxygen and conserving it as major game mechanics. It also [[{{Deconstruction}} quietly acknowledges how]] [[RealityEnsues incredibly expensive a facility would be to make]], requiring civilian corporations to share parts of it for maintenance after the US Navy cut its funding -- one of which was an agricultural company breeding surface animals to become your enemies [[GoneHorriblyWrong when a mutating virus spreads around]]. Whoops.

* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} got her own undersea base--called Sanctuary--in ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 2011}} Supergirl Volume 6]]'' #12. Unfortunately it got blown up in issue #20.

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* The movie ''Film/CaptainNemoAndTheUnderwaterCity'' puts the city of "Templemere" under a dome at the bottom of the ocean, where the submarine ''[[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Nautilus]]'' has its berth. And this is supposedly done during a time when the best technology is Steam powered.

* The research base in ''{{Film/Leviathan1989}}''.

* ''Film/DestinationInnerSpace'' is about an underwater research station, being menaced by an [[FishPeople icthyoid]] alien.

** Also, [[spoiler:in the Penultimate Peril, Hotel Denouement is actually a library under the water that reflects the hotel. Everything on the hotel is written backwards so that it's correct in the reflection.]]

* In the Pixar movie ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', the entrance to Syndrome's magnificent ElaborateUndergroundBase is under the sea, built for submersible aircraft to use.
* The Legion of Doom had their headquarters beneath a swamp in the Saturday-morning cartoon series ''Challenge of the Superfriends''.

* Plenty of these have shown up in ComicBook/Aquaman stories. For examble, Dr. Stephen Shin worked at a research station called Triton Base.

* The movie ''Captain Nemo and the Underwater City'' puts the city of "Templemere" under a dome at the bottom of the ocean, where the submarine ''[[Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea Nautilus]]'' has its berth. And this is supposedly done during a time when the best technology is Steam powered.

[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment At the bottom of the sea.]]"''

* A villain in ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' has one that bears [[ShoutOut more than a passing resemblance]] to {{Sealab|2020}}. His StartOfDarkness came from [[CabinFever spending too much time on his own down there.]]

* [[spoiler:The two drilling rigs]] in ''Film//{{Underwater}}''. The reason why the spoiler is there is because [[spoiler:when the protagonists reach the second rig, lost some time prior to the film, they find more evidence that the company they work for is running [[CorruptCorporateExecutive on Weyland-Yutani rules]]: the stuff they drill is much more important to them than their lives and [[EldritchAbomination potentially those of the entire human race]].]]

* The Floridian superheroes known as the Caribbean Crew, in the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', has a hidden base is sunken off the coast of Key West. From the outside, it mostly looks like a coral reef.

* ''WebOriginal/HowToHero'' mentions that the superhero team Hero Force has an underwater headquarters where they host mahjong night for retired superheroes every Thursday at 3 pm.