The focus shifts to the Argonautica, a luxurious cruise ship, embarking on its maiden voyage with many wealthy passengers. The ship is the dream and brainchild of Simon Canton (Anthony Heald) and is under the watchful eye of seasoned Captain Atherton (Derrick O'Connor). Mingling among the guests and taking full opportunity of the facilities and entertainment is Trillian, (Famke Janssen) a glamorous thief. The party reaches full swing as Canton delivers a speech, christening the ship and those sailing in her to 'good times, forever'.
With the crew and passengers occupied, Trillian successfully enters the room containing the ship's safe and the valuables within. She is removing the jewels when she is caught by Canton, Captain Atherton and two stewards. She is placed in a storeroom as the brig is currently incomplete.
The party races on, and it soon becomes apparent that the ship's navigation and communication systems have been brought down by a problem the crew cannot identify; the ship is running blind, leading Canton to go into hysterics.
The crewman manning the sonar brings an unusual object to their attention, and they can only watch with growing alarm as the object hurtles toward the ship from the ocean floor. Moments later, the party, as well as the ship itself are brought to a sudden and violent stop. Reeling from the stop, the passengers begin to panic as a series of unusual sounds echo up from somewhere beneath the liner.
It is revealed that Finnegan's transport consists of a group of mercenaries who have been hired to rob the Argonautica's passengers and set them off safely before sinking the liner with a hastily installed torpedo launcher. Finnegan's boat runs into the drifting speed boat, damaging its engine. Using information and schematics given to them by an insider, the team led by Hanover (Wes Studi), boards the liner, taking Finnegan and Joey along. However, all they find are the shattered remnants of the party and blood. Hanover orders the group to split up; he, Vivo (Djimon Hounsou), Mason (Clifton Powell), and Mulligan (Jason Flemyng) will find the vault; Finnegan and Joey, escorted by T-Ray (Trevor Goddard) and Mamooli (Cliff Curtis), are sent to the below to get the parts they need to repair their boat.
As they explore key sections of the ship, they find signs of chaos everywhere. After performing as much of the securing as they can manage, they head down to the safe room and find Trillian. She escaped the store room by short circuiting the electronic lock. She intended to have another go at stealing the contents of the safe, this time using Canton's access card. With the card in hand and Trillian being held by one of Hanover's men, the safe is unlocked and the contents revealed. Vivo is immediately killed accidentally by Canton who drives an axe into Vivo's head and two of the other pirates open fire into the vault killing three surviving passengers.
In the engine room, Finnegan and Joey witness Mamooli and T-Ray being dragged underwater by some unseen force, while back on Finnegan's boat, Leila and the mercenary who was watching her suffer a similar fate.
It is revealed that the ship has become infested by creatures that resemble giant worms swallowing and digesting their prey alive. Canton speculates that they are members of the Ottoia family of deep-sea worms, which have evolved to immense size in the extreme depths of oceanic trenches. They know that the infestation is too large to kill with conventional weapons and so plan a drastic last ditch effort to stop it from getting to anyone else. They mount one of the mercenaries' torpedoes on Finnegan's boat and program the autopilot to crash it into the Argonautica. The creature is seen in the ship's main atrium where the monster bursts through the floor and grabs Finnegan, but he is able to free himself by shooting the creature in the eye with a shotgun.
Finnegan and Trillian use a jet ski to escape the ship as it is destroyed. The survivors take a moment to relax on the only nearby island. They find out that one other survivor made it to shore is Joey. However, it appears that this break will be short lived when a roar echoes across the island, and something is moving towards them in the nearby forest.
On its opening weekend it made $4,737,793 (42% of its total gross), ranking #8.
Deep Rising ended up being a box office bomb, with total intake of a little over $11,000,000 on a $45,000,000 budget.
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