Line #102 Main/SubStory


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13	''[[AC:[[StockSoundEffects PING!]]]]''
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15	Humanity has been fascinated for a long time with going under the sea and this is epitomised in the Sub Story. Fiction and fact-based drama [[UsefulNotes/TypesOfNavalShips involving submarines]] has many advantages to it:
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17	* You don't need to spend lots of money on sets or StockFootage. You can set it solely in the cramped sub interior, yet still create plenty of suspense with [[SensorSuspense just a radar scanner and a pinging sonar]].
18	* You can justify a ShirtlessScene (Old submarines like German U-boats had no air conditioning and were very cramped and hot).
19	* [[CabinFever Confined spaces tend to bring out the worst in people]] and are good for horror movies, as [[ClosedCircle no one can escape]].
20	* There's the added danger that if the sub goes to the bottom involuntarily, the chances of everyone dying from pressure or lack of air are pretty high.
21	* Nuclear power plant in an isolated submarine? Lots of potential for drama if the reactor melts down.
22	* Torpedoes can run for a good ten or fifteen minutes, so if you lose track of one, it might bite you in the, er, aft portion.
23	* SilentRunningMode is an good source of suspense, as the crew shuts down all power and tries to elude a sub-hunter and mine layer ship that is dropping depth charges.
24	* HotSubOnSubAction, with sleek, glistening subs gliding through the water and firing torpedoes is [[RuleOfCool just plain cool]].
25	* The whole thing is a contest of wits, bravery and determination with plenty of scope for a GuileHero.
26	* There is gobs and gobs of TechnologyPorn and made-up {{Technobabble}}. "Adjust bow plane yaw level by 20 degrees! Maintain aft compression vortex!"[[note]]Naval submarine phraseology for radio commands is TruthInTelevision, because when you're deep under the ocean ''and'' the enemy is trying to blow you up, it's stressful, so you need a clear, unambiguous way to communicate commands and messages. As such, if a WWII sub captain got an urgent warning of an enemy torpedo plane, they shout "DiveDiveDive". The crew has no confusion over what they need to do. [[/note]]
27	* Both sides are to some degree "blindfolded" and depend on hearing or detecting each other, making for an interesting combat situation.
28	* The stakes are all or nothing. If a sub survives an engagement likely everyone aboard will survive while if it is sunk or crippled it will be so far underwater that everyone will die.
29	* [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfNavalWarfare Historical settings]] like the UsefulNotes/ColdWar or UsefulNotes/WorldWarII lend plausibility to the story; with all the secrecy back then, an adventure that took place hidden under the ocean seems like it really could have happened.
30	* They tend to be RatedMForManly which may be a good thing for some. Submarines have been historically and exclusively a male-only environment and with this comes a few expectations with regard to storytelling. Female characters are often either minimized (often no spoken lines), or even totally absent.
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32	Many of these are Main/DuringTheWar, but they don't have to be. Indeed they don't even have to involve the military. They don't ''even'' have to be underwater, as SpaceIsAnOcean means that fictional spaceships will often behave like subs. Films such as ''The Fantastic Voyage'' and ''Film/TheCore'' have recycled SubStory tropes in more fantastical settings ([[FantasticVoyagePlot a man's bloodstream]] and [[LavaIsBoilingKoolAid the Earth's mantle]], respectively).
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34	Home of many a Main/CoolBoat with a BadassCrew. Expect at least one SilentRunningMode scene.
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36	JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith a story about a submissive member of a UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} relationship, or a [[NestedStory story within a story]].
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39	!!Examples:
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43	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
44	* ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel''
45	* ''Anime/BlueSubmarineNo6''
46	* ''Anime/{{Ozuma}}'', submarines [[RuleOfCool in the sand]]!
47	* ''Manga/TheSilentService''
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50	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
51	* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' starts off as this. The journey begins with the explorers entering the Atlantic Ocean via a submarine called the ''Ulysses'', but the submarine is then destroyed by a giant robotic lobster called the Leviathan, who kills off most of the background crew. The main characters then escape into an underwater cave via several smaller subs, and then after that is a TravelMontage through said caves leading to Atlantis, with the lost city finally being reached after their camp is attacked by a swarm of literal fireflies.
52	* ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''. This sub is part [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]], but it's small for a fantasy ship, with lots of pipes, and has very intimidating controls. And while its engine isn't ''quite'' as dangerous as a nuclear reactor, it's good for some drama.
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55	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
56	* In ''Film/AssaultOnAQueen'', a group of treasure hunters salvage a German U-boat and decide to become SubmarinePirates.
57	* ''Film/TheAtomicSubmarine'', a 1959 BMovie where the eponymous nuclear submarine fights an [[FlyingSaucer Unidentified Submerged Object]] beneath the North Pole.
58	* The 1985 Soviet two-part film ''Film/AttentionAllHands'' (rough translation of ''Слушать в отсеках'') starts with a Soviet sub sneaking into Bagryanaya Bay and sinking a German transport ship during UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, before being lost with all hands. Forty years later, the sub commander's son (also a sub commander) is participating in a war game, pitted against his academy friend, who is in command of a destroyer. In the second part of the game, the sub commander has to sneak into the very same bay as his late father and "sink" a target. Instead of trying to sneak past the waiting destroyer at the bay entrance, the sub locates an underwater passage under a mountain that leads straight into the bay and takes the incredibly risky dive in order to get in that way. They succeed and win the war game. In the process, the commander finally realizes how his father managed to perform his heroic feat.
59	* ''Film/TheBedfordIncident'' - a loose retelling of ''Literature/MobyDick'' [[SettingUpdate using a Soviet Submarine in place of the whale.]]
60	* ''Film/{{Below}}'' by David Twohy (of [[Franchise/TheChroniclesOfRiddick Riddick]] fame) plays the "bringing worst in humans" part for all the scares it can get out of it.
61	* ''Film/BlackSea'': A submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a World War II sub that's rumored to be loaded with gold.
62	* ''Film/DasBoot'', one of the most historically accurate and gripping views of World War II sub combat.
63	* ''Film/CrashDive'', another movie filmed during WWII, about an American submarine attacking German commerce raiders in the North Atlantic.
64	* ''Film/CrimsonTide''
65	* ''Film/{{The Damned\|1947}}'' is about a group of Nazis and Nazi collaborators who attempt to flee to South America aboard a U-boat as the war is ending.
66	* ''Film/DestinationTokyo'' - a drama made during the war based on a recon patrol into Tokyo Harbor. The effects were so good that the Navy used it as a training film.
67	* ''Film/DownPeriscope'' - a comedy about a RagtagBunchOfMisfits being given a UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo-era diesel sub as part of a naval exercise and pitted against the modern US Navy, including a nuclear sub. Despite it being a comedy, there are still some tense moments.
68	* ''Film/TheEnemyBelow'', which was Main/RecycledInSpace as the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Balance of Terror".
69	* ''Film/GrayLadyDown'' features two submarines: the USS ''Neptune'' and the experimental mini sub ''The Snark''
70	* ''Film/HellcatsOfTheNavy'' - which won the Golden Turkey Award for the worst UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan film of all time.
71	* ''Film/HostileWaters'', a film about an accident aboard a Soviet ballistic missile submarine.
72	* The 1999 MadeForTV movie ''Film/TheHunley'' is centered around the experimental Confederate submarine ''Hunley'', which had thus far claimed the lives of two of its crews while being tested. A new crew is put together, and they must find a way to use their submarine against the [[NavalBlockade Union Navy blockade]] of Charleston. [[spoiler: The sub sinks, and takes its third crew with it, but not before destroying a Union warship by [[RammingAlwaysWorks lancing it]] with a large explosive device.]]
73	* ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' -- what happens when an entire submarine tries to defect from the Soviet Union.
74	* ''Film/IceStationZebra''
75	* ''Film/K19TheWidowmaker''
76	* ''Film/MorningDeparture'' - actually set just post WWII, but plays much more like a WWII story than a Cold War one.
77	* ''Film/OperationPacific''. The WWII exploits of the fictional USS ''Thunderfish'' are culled from actual wartime submarine incidents. The Technical Advisor for the film was ADM Charles Lockwood, COMSUBPAC during the war.
78	** CDR Perry is wounded on the bridge and gives the order to "take her down", sacrificing himself to save his ship. This scene is based on the actual incident that earned CDR Howard Gilmore of USS ''Growler'' the Medal of Honor.
79	* ''Film/OperationPetticoat'' - a comedy about evacuating nurses from the Philippines to Australia in December 1941.
80	* ''Film/RunSilentRunDeep'' - surprisingly realistic take on sub warfare around the Japanese home islands.
81	* ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' features multiple submarines. Among its more notable aspects is a movie featuring Main/PageThreeStunna pics somehow getting a PG when the BBFC reclassified the thing and Barbara Bach's shower. On naval ships, water is at somewhat at a premium (no, you can't get it directly from the sea; that's salt water and you need to desalinate it first) and sailors take a "Navy Shower" (rinse, lather, rinse off). Bach has the shower running. The captain clearly liked her; "Hollywood Showers" are only permitted if you've done something special.
82	* The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' films:
83	** ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'': WordOfGod said [[http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/tmp2/tmphd0031.jpg the bridge of the Klingon K'Tinga battlecruiser]] was made to look like "an enemy submarine in World War II that's been out at sea for too long.", and Klingon starship interiors would have similar designs in subsequent Trek productions.
84	** ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' has another sub duel Main/RecycledInSpace with two starships inside a nebula. There's even a scene in which ''Enterprise'' "submerges," waits for ''Reliant'' to pass overhead, and then "surfaces" to attack.
85	** Later ''Franchise/StarTrek'' films would play with the trope further, with the ''Enterprise'' and other Starfleet ships having to contend with cloaked Klingon warships:
86	** ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': The USS ''Grissom'' is destroyed in a surprise attack by Kruge's Bird of Prey; later on the ''Enterprise'' is also badly damaged by Kruge's ship.
87	** ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'': The ''Enterprise'' spends much of the film being pursued by another Bird of Prey commanded by Klaa.
88	** ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'': A Klingon starship carrying Chancellor Gorkon to meet with the President of the Federation is attacked by a cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey hoping to frame the ''Enterprise'' for the attack. The film's climax has the ''Enterprise'' and the USS ''Excelsior'' battling the advanced Bird of Prey which, unlike her predecessors, does not need to [[InvisibilityFlicker uncloak to fire her weapons.]]
89	* ''Film/SubmarineCommand''
90	* ''Film/{{U 571}}'', one of the ''least'' historically accurate movies (at least concerning the Enigma code and who exactly captured it), it still is also incredibly gripping.
91	* ''Film/UpPeriscope''
92	* ''Film/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea'', the 1961 scifi film by Creator/IrwinAllen that led to a [[Series/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea TV series of the same name]].
93	* ''Film/WeDiveAtDawn''- British film made during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, involving a British sub of the P-class being sent to the Baltic to sink a new German battleship. Despite being a propaganda film, it's still pretty good.
94	* ''Film/WingCommander'': A [[HumansByAnyOtherName Terran]] space fighter carrier finds itself fighting against badly stacked odds. They spend much of the movie trying to hide from the enemy [[CatFolk Kilrathi]] fleet, while trying to find some way to [[DelayingAction delay their attack]] on Earth long enough for TheCavalry to get in position to stop them. A lot of the movie was intentionally made as an homage to ''Film/DasBoot''.
95	* ''Film/TheWolfsCall''
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98	[[folder:Literature]]
99	* ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' - the Main/TropeMaker. Three men are kept captive on a rogue submarine run as its own country by the mysterious Captain Nemo... before practical submarines became a thing.
100	* ''Das Boot'' (1973) by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, a novel about a German submarine in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Better known via its film adaptation ''Film/DasBoot'' (1981).
101	* ''The Dragon in the Sea'' (AKA ''Under Pressure'') by Creator/FrankHerbert depicts tense underwater combat TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture between nuclear submarines. Despite being published in 1956 it has survived the ravages of ScienceMarchesOn and ZeeRust remarkable well.
102	* Two novel series by submarine historian Edwyn Gray, one about a British S-Boat and one about a German U-Boat, both in WWII.
103	* The "spider drive" vessels in ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series are basically submarines [[RecycledInSpace In Space!]]
104	* ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'' is all about the Red October submarine, and the above-water forces hounding it.
105	** Additional books in the Ryanverse generally include submarine operations as a b-plot or additional actions, including ''Literature/TheCardinalOfTheKremlin''[[note]]A ''Los Angeles''-class submarine attempts to extract two people from the Soviet Union through the Barents Sea[[/note]], ''Literature/TheSumOfAllFears''[[note]]The ''USS Maine'', an ''Ohio''-class submarine with a particularly nasty captain, is part of a b-plot involving the attempted tracking of the sub by a Soviet hunter-killer submarine, and eventually ends up as one of the casualties in the climax[[/note]], and ''Literature/DebtOfHonor''[[note]]Due to a greatly reduced Navy, the ''Ohio''-class missile submarines get a new lease on life as special operations support platforms[[/note]].
106	** The non-Ryanverse novel ''Literature/RedStormRising'' features the captains of both a sub and a sub-hunting frigate as significant POV characters.
107	* Literature/{{Discworld}}'s [[Creator/LeonardoDaVinci Leonard of Quirm]] builds a reconnaissance submarine in ''Literature/{{Jingo}}''. He calls it a '[[GiverOfLameNames Going-Under-The-Water-Safely Device]]'.
108	* ''Kishin Corps'', set in WWII, plus an alien invasion, one of the protagonist mecha is an amphibious type with an underwater mode.
109	* ''Literature/OurWivesUnderTheSea'': Leah's half of the plot consists of her and two crewmates on a submarine that's stuck at the bottom of the ocean. They [[spoiler:don't see anything until the end]], but they do wind up slightly losing their minds.
110	* Creator/GlenCook's "Passage at Arms" follows the story of a Climber ship, a type of spaceship that can under very specific circumstances essentially drop out of conventional space and fly almost undetectable except for a "pseudo-Hawking black hole" several millimeters wide. The primary danger is that while in climber space the ship cannot release the heat buildup from any of their systems.
111	** The book is actually more-or-less a remake of ''Literature/DasBoot'' [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]!
112	* One of Robert Fulton's early submarines plays an important role in ''Ratcatcher''; the first ''Literature/MatthewHawkwood'' novel.
113	* Edward Beach's ''Run Silent, Run Deep'' and its sequels, made into a Clark Gable film. Also his book ''Submarine!'', a memoir/history of the WWII Silent Service.
114	* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' novel ''The Grim Grotto''.
115	* Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheTemple''.
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118	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
119	* The episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E13WhyWeFight Why We Fight]]" from season five of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' is a WWII flashback where Angel is sent by the U.S. government to help bring in a captured U-boat.
120	* The ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' episode "D minus 0" is also a sub story RecycledInSpace.
121	* ''Series/{{Das Boot\|2018}}'', sequel series to the [[Film/DasBoot 1981 film]]. Contrary to the latter, it adds some land-based subplots.
122	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E8ColdWar Cold War]]" is set on a crippled Soviet sub beneath the arctic ice, with something very nasty loose on board.
123	* ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'': The webisode miniseries ''[[WebVideo/FearTheWalkingDeadDeadInTheWater Dead in the Water]]'' is set aboard the USS ''Pennsylvania'', which was found beached ashore in Texas in Season 6, revealing how that came to be -- the sub was doing maneuvers in the Gulf of Mexico when the ZombieApocalypse began, with the crew [[DwindlingParty slowly being picked off]] as the virus spreads among them. After [[AntiMutiny refusing orders to nuke Chicago]] in a senseless attempt to contain the outbreak, the surviving crew members beach the ship and scatter. Unfortunately, one of them would later get seduced into [[DarkMessiah Teddy's]] ApocalypseCult and lead him to the ''Pennsylvania'' in order to [[spoiler: launch its payload across Texas]].
124	* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' featured several episodes taking place on submarines, with plots ranging from historical events, espionage to fish-out-of-water stories to the occasional bit of HotSubOnSubAction. [[labelnote:The 12 out of 227 episodes]]\
125	1x3 ''Shadow''\
126	4x16 ''Silent Service''\
127	5x7 ''Rouge\
128	5x22 ''Overdue & Presumed Lost\
129	6x15 ''Iron Coffin''\
130	7x5 ''Mixed Messages''\
131	7x14 ''Odd Man Out''\
132	7x23 ''In Country''\
133	7x24 ''Enemy Below''\
134	8x7 ''Need To Know''\
135	8x17 ''EmptyQuiver''\
136	9x7 ''Close Quarters''
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138	* ''Series/TheLastShip'': Sean Ramsey, the BigBad of Season 2, is a former Royal Navy officer who was stationed aboard a submarine, the HMS ''Achilles'', during the [[ThePlague Red Flu plague]]; being one of the only survivors among the crew, he took command of the sub and now uses it as a mobile headquarters of his cult. It gets into several battles with the ''Nathan James'' over the course of the season, with their FinalBattle in particular involving the battleship ending up right on top of where the submarine is submerged and the two jockeying to get into position to attack each other without collateral damage.
139	* ''Series/LastResort'' is about a US Navy submarine that goes rogue after becoming {{Unwitting Pawn}}s in a GovernmentConspiracy's FalseFlagOperation.
140	* Parodied on ''Series/NoSoapRadio''. One sketch has a little old lady reading the newspaper in the park... while she's being targeted by a Japanese submarine.
141	* The episode "The Last Voyage of the ''Jimmy Carter''" of ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'', is a [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble flashforward/flashback]] set on humanity's last working military submarine, on a secret mission in the war with the Machines.
142	* ''Series/SeaQuestDSV''
143	* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror Balance of Terror]]" is ''Film/TheEnemyBelow'' [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]] fought between Kirk and a WorthyOpponent Romulan Captain.
144	** The ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E07StarshipDown Starship Down]]" is essentially ''Film/DasBoot'' [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace in space]]]].
145	* ''Series/TheUnit'' has an episode involving a rather trippy dream and the women of the series getting action-y in said dream, plus a South Korean submarine.
146	* The first season of ''Series/VigilBBC'' is a murder investigation on a British Navy nuclear submarine.
147	* ''Series/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea''
148	* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', of all things, had the episode "Tsunami", in which a slave galleon is capsized and sunk by an enormous wave. Xena, Gabrielle, and a handful of survivors are trapped below deck in a small part of the ship that still has air, and are trying to figure out how to get out of the ship and get to the surface before they run out.
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151	[[folder:Music]]
152	* Music/TheBeatles' "Yellow Submarine", which inspired [[WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine the film]].
153	* Music/{{Gorillaz}}' music video of "On Melancholy Hill" mostly features a fleet of submersibles piloted by the album's artists.
154	* Music/IronMaiden's "Run Silent Run Deep".
155	* Music/{{KISS}}' "Torpedo Girl" is about Ace being visited by a submarine in the place where he was swimming, and meeting, of course, the titular girl.
156	* Music/{{Raven}}'s "Run Silent Run Deep", about a--likely WWII--submarine attacking a convoy.
157	* Music/{{Sabaton}} Wolfpack, which is based on a Wolfpack attack on a Convoy during the battle of the Atlantic.
158	* The Music/SexPistols have "Submission", which sounds like an ObligatoryBondageSong from the title, but is instead about a literal submarine mission, with equally ridiculous double and single entendres.
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161	[[folder:Radio]]
162	* ''Radio/DeepTrouble'', a BBC radio series, is a comedy set on a Royal Navy nuclear submarine with an [[ArmedFarces incompetent crew]].
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165	[[folder:Video Games]]
166	* ''688 Attack Sub''
167	* ''VideoGame/ArchimedeanDynasty'' and ''Videogame/{{Aquanox}}''
168	* ''VideoGame/{{Barotrauma}}'': Aside from brief visits to small outposts and the occasional EVA jaunt in a diving suit, the entire game takes place within the confines of a player-crewed submarine exploring an extraterrestrial EldritchOceanAbyss.
169	* ''VideoGame/ColdWaters'', a SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/RedStormRising''
170	* ''VideoGame/DangerousWaters''
171	* ''VideoGame/DeepFighter''
172	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'', and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' all have submarines as available transportation, but the best example from the series is ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' which has an actual sub battle as a later part of the plot, which can be replayed for fun at the Gold Saucer, as well as being the mode of travel needed to engage in battle with the bonus boss Emerald Weapon.
173	* ''VideoGame/{{Harpoon}}'' (based on a miniatures game)
174	* ''VideoGame/IronLung'' combines this with sci-fi horror.
175	* The ''VideoGame/SilentHunterSeries''
176	* The ''Silent Service'' series from Microprose
177	* ''VideoGame/StirringAbyss''
178	* ''VideoGame/SubCulture''
179	* ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}}'' becomes this when you travel in the Cyclops submarine. It can be equipped with sonar to navigate the dark depths of Planet 4546B.
180	* ''VideoGame/SubRebellion''
181	* ''VideoGame/Subwar2050''
182	* ''VideoGame/{{UBOAT}}''
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185	[[folder:Web Original]]
186	* ''Webcomic/DeepDiveDaredevils'': Set in TheThirties, a DieselPunk story about a CoolBoat and its BadassCrew.
187	* ''WebVideo/StampysLovelyWorld'': Episode 165, "Ocean Adventure", was supposed to be one, but then events took a turn for a worse when the crew find [[BigBad HitTheTarget's]] underwater base in the process and end up uncovering one of his evil plans.
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190	[[folder:Western Animation]]
191	* ''WesternAnimation/BigBlue'': The series follows the crew of the submarine Calypso, who use their vessel to explore the ocean and defend it from threats.
192	* ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep2015'': The series follows the Nekton family, a family of daring underwater explorers who live aboard a state-of-the-art submarine, the ''Aronnax'', and explore uncharted areas of the earth's oceans to unravel the mysteries of the deep.
193	* The titular ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' transformed into a submarine several times outside the underwater episode.
194	* The ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' episode "Cat and Mouse" is pretty much a Sub Story InSpace. Anakin and his crew have to pilot a stealth ship (built long, narrow and cramped like a real sub, and armed with torpedoes for good measure) past a Separatist blockade under the command of a fearsomely clever admiral. The stealth ship cannot fire weapons without decloaking and is ''vastly'' outgunned by the blockade, requiring Anakin to use expert piloting and [[GuileHero guile]] to take out his foe.
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