Stage Packaged
Genre thriller, sci-fi
A marine biologist stationed at a deep-sea research platform discovers that the anomalous readings her team has been logging for six months are not geological — and that someone at the funding agency already knows.
DR. CLAIRE SONG, 36, runs a four-person team at a autonomous research platform in the Pacific Ocean studying deep-sea thermal vent ecosystems. At the six-month mark, her data shows a pattern of acoustic signatures that don't fit any known geological model. When she files the anomaly report, her funding agency's response arrives in under four minutes — at 3 AM local time. OPEN WATER PROTOCOL is a claustrophobic single-location science thriller with a confirmed cast and production start. The script was developed with active NOAA researchers and is designed to be the most technically credible deep-sea thriller since The Abyss.
Director Nina Volkov
Producer Aaron Blake
Writer Nina Volkov