Danger Beneath the Sea

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Danger Beneath the Sea
Directed by	Jon Cassar
Written by	Lucian Truscott IV
Starring	Casper Van Dien Gerald McRaney Tammy Isbell Dominic Zamprogna Kim Poirier
Distributed by	Carlton America
Release date(s)	29 November, 2001
Running time	92 min.
Language	English
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Danger Beneath the Sea is a thriller TV movie released in 2001.

The story revolves around an American nuclear attack submarine named the USS Lansing which, after a North Korean nuclear missile test goes wrong, is cut off from communications. After detecting radioactivity in the air and believing the world to be at nuclear war, the Executive Officer onboard the vessel takes command of the ship from the Captain and prepares to fire the submarine's nuclear missiles at targets in Russia. Some members of the crew don't believe this scenario and join with the Captain to take back control of the ship, while a second American Submarine is given the task of hunting down and destroying the Lansing before it can start a real war.

In the end the Captain is successful in regaining control of the vessel and preventing the ship's missiles from being launched. After then having to outmanouvre the vessel tasked with destroying the Lansing, the Captain surfaces in a Russian harbour and uses a mobile phone (gained from a crewman who brought it onboard during a stop-over in Tokyo) to contact an Admiral and inform them that the situation is now under control.

[edit] Cast

Casper Van Dien as Commander Miles Sheffield
Gerald McRaney as Admiral Eugene Justice
Stewart Bick as Lt. Commander Albert Kenner
Tammy Isbell as Lt. Clare Holliday
Ron White as CPO Pete LeCroix
Vince Corazza as Lt. Commnder Eric Watkins
Paul Essiembre as St1 Tony Martinez
Dominic Zamprogna as AS Ryan Alford
Michael McLachlan as Lt. Sal Lombardi
Jim Thorburn as AS Matt Rockwell
Justin Peroff as Lt. Howard Lowenstein
Joel Gordon as PO3C Terry Peel
Kim Poirier as Lisa Alford
Shane Daly as Lt. Commander Gary Reynolds
Brad Austin as PO1C Ross
Russell Yuen as Lt. Neil Ryan
Billy Parrott as Radioman Dunkel
Toby Proctor as Seaman