Peter Yates The Deep (1977), starring Nick Nolte, Jacqueline Bisset, and Robert Shaw, adapts Peter Benchleys novel into a mix of undersea adventure and suspense. When a couple discovers a sunken shipwreck in Bermuda, theyre drawn into a deadly conflict with treasure hunters and smugglers. Combining sea adventure, survival thrills, and 1970s disaster-era spectacle, it became one of the decades biggest ocean-themed hits. 101 Films Released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, The Deep (1977) is a lavish, suspense-filled adventure, directed by Peter Yates (Bullitt) and adapted from Jaws writer Peter Benchleys best-selling novel. Gail Berke (Jacqueline Bisset) and David Sanders (Nick Nolte) are on a romantic holiday in Bermuda when they come upon the sunken wreck of a WWII freighter. Near it, they find an ampule of morphine, one of tens of thousands still aboard the wrecked ship. Their discovery leads them to a Haitian drug dealer, Cloche (Louis Gossett), and an old treasure hunter, Romer Treece (Robert Shaw). With Cloche in pursuit, Gail, David and Treece try to recover the sunken treasure. Från IMDB: In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck.