In a storm ravaged alternate timeline where populations are moving underwater for safety, a dynamic woman leads her submarine crew through hazardous rescue and recovery missions . 

SYNOPSIS:

This is an Earth where the Fukashima meltdown sparked a relentless worldwide series of disasters. After ten years of disruption, devastation and loss of habitat, people are exhausted and desperate for sanctuary. NASA-backed technology is allowing them to move to the ocean floor in self-preservation. There, along the continental shelves, communities are thriving, giving hope for a better future.

By necessity submarines have become the railroads of this new frontier. The US Navy is now peacekeeper and police force.

In the pilot, Admiral Brian Powell has more than enough to handle without fringe pirates threatening to disable his newest warship. Certain that there’s a mole in his staff, he turns to trusted classmates to protect his boat and ferret out the traitor.

As a little girl, Cass Dexter determined she would be more than a pretty face like her Hollywood starlet mother. Brash, adventurous, and smart she dreamed of commanding a frontline defense sub. What she got when Brian called for help was an end-of-its-career rescue vessel.

As if that wasn’t insult enough, her estranged husband, JP, is assigned to the crew. It’s not that she doesn’t love him, but they haven’t spoken in five years after his arrest for participating in an anti-nuke sabotage attempt.

A free spirit snowboarder and too honest for his own good, JP paid the price for activism. He jumps at this second chance for a career, but facing Cass brings all his doubts to the surface. He shuts down emotionally to give her his best effort at getting the job done.

So, its with raw emotions that they set out as last-minute additions to a war games drill designed to promote the new sub. They can’t stop the sub from being sunk but prove their worth rescuing survivors, then holding position to force a move by the mole and/or pirates.

Cass has JP come up with a short list of suspects while her crew makes emergency repairs. She’s not too surprised to find the mole is the observer on her boat so she baits him into alerting the pirates to the imminent loss of their booty when she requests permission to blow up the wreck.

Once the pirates are taken care of, the mole tries to incriminate JP, but their marriage was done in secret and the faked evidence blows up. For all her hard work, Cass should get a promotion. Instead, Brian demands she annul the marriage for that high profile position or stay anonymous on Stingray.

Going into the first year, Cass has decided to stick with Stingray. To prove to herself that she can be a captain and a wife at the same time. She and JP agree to a day-by-day approach to personal time. But as much as she likes the idea of being married, the demands of command take precedence and puts obstacles between them, creating a tension that threatens the union.

A fully diverse crew tackles weekly rescues; as diverse as recovering missiles from the downed sub, to providing EMT service to outlying colonies, or standing between fishermen and apex predators for the same fishing grounds. There are pirates and fringe groups, environmentalists and business concerns to deal with and always the threat of unpredictable weather events.

The only things you won’t see on this series are invasions by triffids, aliens or unfrozen anything, except possibly bacteria, which is a current event that hasn’t yet been assessed for danger.

All is not the doom and gloom of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Grounded in science, educational without being preachy, this series is ultimately about resilience, improvisation and hope for the future. Light- hearted episodes have old salts convincing their young counterparts that the sub is haunted, or an accidental release of a powerful aphrodisiac leads to strange bed fellows.

STINGRAY: DEEP SEA RESCUE