SEALAB sits 5,023 feet below the ocean’s surface off the coast of New Zealand, and their secondary base is even deeper - 8,142 feet below. Raymond was used to the pressure, literally, of fixing deep sea drills at SEALAB, that is until one day he discovered something below the surface, and after that? No one heard from him. Raymond has been missing for more than a day now, and he only had 8 hours of oxygen in his tank. How then did he send a distress signal at 11,000 feet below the surface, 20 hours later? Ellie, and a few of her coworkers volunteer to go find Raymond, and whatever else may be lurking below. 

Survival horror is my absolute favorite sub-genre of horror, and I can’t get enough of deep sea or space type horror. Are a lot of them the same? Yes! But just how all of Disturbed’s music sounds the same, I still love it. They Came From the Ocean is your typical deep sea horror novel, blending claustrophobia, thalassophobia, and impending doom all together. I liked the connection Bacic made the reader feel to Ellie, letting you get to know the MC. While it did take a little bit for the deep sea rescue to begin, I wasn’t left bored with the character backstory/growth. They Came From the Ocean is a definite must read for any survival horror junkie!