Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got on board or where they are going yet, oddly enough, it soon becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
Jilet haline getirilmek üzere hurdaya gönderilmeden önceki son yolculuğuna çıkan dev yolcu gemisi Poseidon'un yorgun bedeni, çok zorlanınca yılbaşı gecesi denize yenik düşer. Alabora olan gemi su almaya başladığında, bir papazın örgütlediği hayatta kalanlar yaşam mücadelesine başlar.Kazazedelerin kurtulmak için tek şansı, şimdi tersyüz olmuş ve giderek su alan geminin derinliklerinden deniz seviyesinin üzerine doğru imkansız bir yolculuğa çıkmaktır. Geminin labirent gibi dehlizlerinde yaşam savaşı grubun pek uyumlu olduğu ise söylenemez: başı çeken bir papaz, İsrail'deki torunlarını görmeye giden yaşlı bir çift, bir tüccar, New York'lu bir dedektif ile eski bir olan karısı, iki çocuk, ünlü bir şarkıcı ve bir garson...
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact that he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz?
In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.
The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert Adams is reluctant to evacuate the steamship. While the crew fights to hold a bulkhead between the flooded boiler room and the engine room and avoid the sinking of the vessel, the passenger Cliff Henderson struggles against time trying to save his beloved wife Laurie Henderson, who is trapped under a steel beam in her cabin, with the support of the crew member Hank Lawson.
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.