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* ''Film/{{Underwater}}''. When the main characters meet Captain Lucien, he's already gotten 22 people off in the evac pods and is staying behind because there aren't any more. The rest of the plot involves making the hazardous journey to another UnderwaterBase where they hope there will be more evac pods. [[spoiler:It's implied all the earlier evacuees were killed by the FishPeople, and Norah performs a HeroicSacrifice to blow the monsters up after seeing them about to swarm the two survivors [[ColdEquation she placed in the two working evac pods]].]] SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale applies here as the pods can only take one person each while the UnderwaterBase has a crew of 316.

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* ''Film/{{Underwater}}''. When the main characters meet Captain Lucien, he's already gotten 22 twenty-two people off in the evac pods and is staying behind because there aren't any more.more (SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale applies as the pods can only take one person each while the UnderwaterBase has a crew of 316--either the base has hundreds of pods or NoOshaCompliance). The rest of the plot involves making the hazardous journey to another UnderwaterBase where they hope there will be more evac pods. [[spoiler:It's implied all the earlier evacuees were killed by the FishPeople, and Norah performs a HeroicSacrifice to blow the monsters up after seeing them about to swarm the two survivors [[ColdEquation she placed in the two working evac pods]].]] SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale applies here as the pods can only take one person each while the UnderwaterBase has a crew of 316.
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* ''Film/{{Underwater}}''. When the main characters meet Captain Lucien, he's already gotten 22 people off in the evac pods and is staying behind because there aren't any more. The rest of the plot involves making the hazardous journey to another UnderwaterBase where they hope there will be more evac pods. [[spoiler:It's implied all the earlier evacuees were killed by the FishPeople, and Norah performs a HeroicSacrifice to blow the monsters up after seeing them about to swarm the two survivors [[ColdEquation she placed in the two working evac pods]].]] SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale applies here as the pods can only take one person each while the UnderwaterBase has a crew of 316.
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* Creator/JamesWhite's non-''Literature/SectorGeneral'' novel ''Lifeboat'' details the events aboard inflatable life pods after an interplanetary liner suffers a catastrophic reactor and engine failure en route to Ganymede.

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* Creator/JamesWhite's non-''Literature/SectorGeneral'' novel ''Lifeboat'' details the events aboard inflatable life pods after an interplanetary liner suffers a catastrophic reactor and engine failure en route to Ganymede. The evacuation to the lifeboats is justified by radioactive contamination spreading throughout much of the ship, as well as by the eventual explosive failure of the reactor.

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