History Recap / ThunderbirdsS1E19DangerAtOceanDeep

* CoolBoat: It would be nice to be able to say this about the ''Ocean Pioneer'' ships but, in a surprising subversion for the series, they rely are just boring old oil tankers. They're the only vehicles in the show that the viewer is unlikely to feel sad about when they inevitably go boom.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Quite strange that no other alsterene tankers passed over OD-60 colonies in the year between ''Ocean Pioneer'''s sinking and its namesake launch. Can only an ''Ocean Pioneer'' ship carry this fuel?

* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Alsterene and OD-60 react when they get close to each other; first they create a static that can interfere with radio waves and when they get close enough, they cause a huge explosion.

* GoingCritical: One of the effects of the strange chemical reaction between the liquid alsterene and the OD-60 is cause the ship's nuclear reactor to go critical.

* SacrificialLamb: The crew on the first Ocean Pioneer.
* SeadogBeard: The captain of ''Ocean Pioneer II''.

* LifeImitatesArt: Good ol' Parker nicks a bottle of 1998 champagne; the vintage was just too good to waste on christening a ship. Indeed, 1998 is considered a good year for champagne.

TheOneWhere John actually goes to the rescue!

* AbandonShip: In one of the simplest and quickest rescues of the series, the Tracy boys cut the door open and evacuate the crew before the ship explodes.

* AlcoholHic: Done by Parker, when he gets drunk. He politely apologizes for it - he may be a thief, but he tries to be a GentlemanThief.
* ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Alsterene and OD-60 react when they get close to each other; first they create a static that can interfere with radio waves, and when they get close enough they cause a huge explosion.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Early on in the episode, Scott, Virgil and Gordon leave to answer to a distress call from Hawai'i. We don't get to see the rescue, but upon returning all three of them are covered in dirt and their hair is a mess, suggesting it was pretty intense.
* OminousFog: the mist surrounding the place where the OD-60 is located.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Early on in the epsode, Scott, Virgil and Gordon leave to answer to a distress call from Hawai'i. We don't get to see the rescue, but upon returning all three of them are covered in dirt and their hair is a mess, suggesting it was pretty intense.

* AlcoholHic: Done by Parker, when he gets drunk. He politely apologizes for it - he may be a thief, but he's a GentlemanThief.

* SeadogBeard: The captain of ''Ocean Pioneer II''.

''Ocean Pioneer'', a new automated chemical tanker, sails into a bank of mysterious fog and explodes, apparently without cause. A year later, ''Ocean Pioneer II'', christened by Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward herself, casts off from Southampton. Investigating the original explosion, Brains discovers that a freak reaction between the tanker's cargo of liquid alsterene and the sea fungi OD-60 is responsible for ''Ocean Pioneer I'''s plight. Thunderbirds 1 and 2 speed to the rescue as ''Ocean Pioneer 2'' enters another fog bank....

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Early on in the epsode, Scott, Virgil and Gordon leave to answer to a distress call from Hawai. We don't get to see the rescue, but upon returning all three of them are covered in dirt and their hair is a mess, suggesting it was pretty intense.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: early on in the epsode, Scott, Virgil and Gordon leave to answer to a distress call from Hawai. We don't get to see the rescue, but upon returning all three of them are covered in dirt and their hair is a mess, suggesting it was pretty intense.

* ADayInTheLimelight: This is the only episode in which John takes part in a rescue. Unfortunately, he doesn't really get to do much.

* StuffBlowingUp: Alsterene and OD-60 form a very explosive combination.

* ADayInTheLimelight: This is the only episode in which John takes part in a rescue. Unfortunately, he doesn't really get to do much.

''Ocean Pioneer'', a new automated chemical tanker, sails into a bank of mysterious fog and explodes, apparently without cause. A year later, ''Ocean Pioneer II'', christened by Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward herself, casts off from Southampton. Investigating the original explosion, Brains discovers that a freak reaction between the tanker's cargo of liquid alsterene and the sea fungi OD-60 is responsible for ''Ocean Pioneer I'''s plight. Thunderbirds 1 and 2 speed to the rescue as ''Ocean Pioneer 2'' enters another fog bank....

''Ocean Pioneer'', a new automated chemical tanker, sails into a bank of mysterious fogs and explodes, apparently without cause. A year later, ''Ocean Pioneer II'', christened by Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward herself, casts off from Southampton. Investigating the original explosion, Brains discovers that a freak reaction between the tanker's cargo of liquid alsterene and the sea fungi OD-60 is responsible for ''Ocean Pioneer I'''s plight. Thunderbirds 1 and 2 speed to the rescue as ''Ocean Pioneer 2'' enters another fog bank....

When ''Ocean Pioneer'', a new automated chemical tanker, is lost at sea with all hands, it's written off as an Act of God. A year later, ''Ocean Pioneer II'', christened by Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward herself, casts off from Southampton. Investigating the original explosion, Brains discovers that ''Ocean Pioneer II'' is in grave and immediate danger, and the Thunderbirds race to the rescue.