The Abyss is a 1989 American science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron and starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, a US search and recovery team works with an oil platform crew, racing against Soviet vessels to recover the boat.

The Abyss: Directed by James Cameron. With Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester. A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

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In January 1994, the U.S. Ohio-class submarine USS Montana has an encounter with an unidentified submerged object that moves at high speed, making detection difficult. Close contact with the strange object disables power and the Montana drifts into some under ocean mountain ridges and sinks near the Cayman Trough.

A team of civilian divers and Navy SEALs search for a sunken nuclear submarine.

While Chief Bud Brigman (Ed Harris) bickers with his ex wife and boss (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), the Navy commander begins to grow increasingly paranoid about the mysterious alien life and threatens to use a recovered nuclear weapon to destroy everything.

When a nuclear sub mysteriously sinks, a private oilrig crew is recruited to join a team of Navy SEALs on a search and rescue effort. It leads to a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where a mysterious force exists that …

Abyss is an excellent Sci-Fi movie from James Cameron. Good production, realism of what is happening and great acting by Ed Harriss. Despite the great timing, suspense in the film holds the viewer.

After a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks in a remote part of the ocean floor, a team of divers on a prototype underwater oil rig are pressed into service by the U.S. Navy in a rescue attempt.