Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
drowning
shipwreck
fisherman
iceland
based on true story
storm
struggle for survival
rescue from drowning
storm at sea
hypothermia