1996年8月，寶藏獵人布洛克‧洛維特與他的團隊在俄羅斯研究船「凱爾迪什號」（Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, AMK）上，利用船上的潛水艇「和平號」潛入北大西洋沉船鐵達尼號所在地，尋找一條著名且當年已失落的鑽石項鍊「海洋之心」（Heart of the Ocean），據說這條鑽石項鍊當年已隨鐵達尼號沉沒於大海。他們在卡爾‧霍克利當年於鐵達尼號所住的房間內發現一個十分古老的保險箱，他們相信「海洋之心」就在那裡，但可惜只找到一幅戴著它的人體素描，作畫日期為1912年4月14日，即鐵達尼號撞上冰山的當晚。
印度發生政變後，少年PI一家人決定要移民加拿大，PI父母關閉原本經營的動物園，收拾所有家當（包括動物園裡的動物），搭上一艘日籍貨船。在船上，他們遇見一位凶悍的法國廚師。當天深夜在茫茫大海中，遇上一場暴風雨，吞噬了整艘貨船，只有PI和四隻動物鬣狗、紅毛猩猩、斑馬以及孟加拉虎理查帕克最後在救生船上。 在大自然生存法則下，救生船只剩下老虎理查帕克和PI，PI隨時隨地擔心被老虎吃掉，卻還是被迫和牠展開一場冒險求生之旅，長達227天的海上漂流。PI與理查帕克面對了許多無法想像的挑戰，包括遼闊的大海，無情襲擊救生船的風雨，孤立無援的恐懼等。其中一場特別兇猛的暴風雨，為PI帶來精神上的體驗，讓他質疑神對他的安排。然而從頭到尾，PI都沒有絕望。一本求生手冊、海上的生物光、壯觀的飛魚群在空中畫出的虹弧、閃閃發亮的碧波、以及一頭躍出海面的座頭鯨，都能讓PI讚嘆萬物之美。
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the president of the White Star Line, who unwisely pressed the Titanic's captain (Otto Wernicke) to make the swiftest possible crossing to New York.
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
An Bronntanas is a contemporary Irish crime thriller set against the backdrop of the Connemara Coastline on the West of Ireland and the dramatic lives of a local lifeboat crew. The story is told through both Irish and English.
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.
Along the seashore near San Francisco, a boat belonging to the Pacific Coast Life Saving Service can just be seen as it returns to shore. Several men are at the oars. As the boat approaches land, it must make its way through rough waves and surging water.