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* There were a couple of underwater races (weresharks, merpeople, and really weird - mervampires) and settings for the ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' that were largely ignored by the player base.
** The trope title was lampshaded in the underwater sourcebook ''Blood-Dimmed Tides'', with a sidebar explaining that the book doesn't say anything about Atlantis because it has been done to death. The book featured a great deal of material for getting regular groups underwater, but nobody really paid any attention, and the new threats (like the Lovecraftian Chulorviah) were left alone in later books.
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** The situation improved near the end of AD&D2 era - a sourcebook and a trio of Monstrous Arcana books (adventure modules with extra lore) - ''Evil Tide'', ''Night of the Shark'', ''Sea of Blood'' - centering on the Sahuagin (evil fish-people who worshipped [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks|sharks]]) were released which fleshed them out enough to be arguably as interesting an antagonist as Drow or Mind Flayers. Unfortunately, that was when TSR was still an independent company (i.e. 15 years ago). Nothing comparable has been written since, either by [[Wizards of the Coast]] or a third party company.
*** [[Forgotten Realms]] had ''The Threat from the Sea'' trilogy by Mel Odom, building upon sahuagin series and existing ''Pirates of the Fallen Stars'' [[sourcebook]]. And then ''Sea of Fallen Stars'' - an underwater splatbook expanding both the novels and earlier game materials.
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=== Live Action TV ===
* [[Gerry Anderson]]'s ''[[Stingray (1964 TV series)||Stingray]]'' has lots of interesting underwater environments and varieties of aquatic races, many of whom want to give our heroes a hard time.
* Averted with ''[[Sea Hunt]],'' which was quite popular in the '60's. Lloyd Bridges played sea diver Mike Nelson, and he took on a new dangerous assignment of one sort or another each week, encountering seafaring crooks, Soviet spies, a sunken ship carrying nerve gas, sharks, alligators, and even a [[Not the Nessie|fake sea monster.]]
* Averted in [[Stargate Atlantis]]. The city of Atlantis is meant to be on the surface of the planet (which is mostly water) but can be submerged if necessary. The shields on the city keep it from flooding; should they fail, the city gets flooded, and everyone dies. Played straight with the ocean of the planet as it is mostly empty and boring.
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