OSI has acquired a decommissioned nuclear submarine from the U. S. Government. Steve Austin joins the crew to assist in locating a lost tracking device. A team of pirates with an underwater hideout sabotage the submarine causing the entire crew to abandon it on the ocean floor. The pirates commandeer the sub with the aid of several trained sharks under the control of the pirate chieftain's beautiful daughter. Steve Austin is taken prisoner when he reenters the sub. Dr. Rudy Wells becomes trapped in an underwater vessel on the ocean floor after a shark bites through its steel cable tether. When it is learned that the pirates are loading a nuclear missile on the submarine, the naval commander assisting in the search decides to destroy the sub at the risk of killing both the bionic man and his maker.
Sharks under control, hijacked nuclear sun, estranged professor and his daughter heading a theft of a submarine, underwater cages - just that description alone makes me excited. An underwater adventure I definitely will love, and here this episode of part one comes across like a film - underwater cinematography is great. It's exciting, the plot wired up and the set pieces are fine. Looking forward to part two. Plus Pamela Hensley is just wow!