Steel Sharks

Steel Sharks (1997)

Below the waves there's only one option... Escape or die!

In this undersea thriller, a United States submarine is seized by terrorists. But a rescue attempt by an elite group of Navy Seals goes wrong when they are captured. Now they must wage a silent war beneath the waves.

Date of release
1997-10-10
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director
Rodney McDonald, William C. Martell

Casting

Interesting facts

Steel Sharks is a 1997 American direct-to-video action film directed by Rodney McDonald and starring Gary Busey, Billy Dee Williams and Billy Warlock. It concerns a group of Navy SEALs who are captured and taken aboard an Iranian submarine from which they must escape to survive. The film was released straight-to-video. Several scenes involving Navy helicopter, ship, and command footage from this film were used in the production of Crash Dive, Freedom Strike, Counter Measures and Agent Red.

Production

Producer Andrew Stevens wrote that Gary Busey had an insurance exclusion for exposure to horse saliva while working on Steel Sharks. Fortunately for the production of the film it was "set on a submarine, so there was little likelihood of that."

The US submarine in the film is named the USS Oakland and is identified as SSN-798. This submarine identifier now corresponds to the Virginia-class submarine the USS Massachusetts, which is currently under construction. According to special thanks credits given at the end of the film the USS Oakland was portrayed by the USS La Jolla (SSN-701) and USS Portsmouth (SSN-707), and the supercarrier in the film was portrayed by the USS Constellation (CV…

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