In Popular Culture
- Chrono Trigger, a 1995 video game, features a large underwater palace.
- The Abyss, DeepStar Six both 1989 movies that takes place in an underwater habitat.
- Ocean Girl an Australian series that features a massive underwater research facility called ORCA.
- Deep Blue Sea, a movie that features scientists working in a large underwater lab station called Aquatica.
- Diving Adventure, a novel by author Willard Price, features an Undersea City clearly inspired by Cousteau's underwater habitat projects.
- Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, much of this movie takes place in an underwater city, named Templemir, built by Captain Nemo and his followers.
- BioShock and BioShock 2, a video game that takes place in Rapture, a secretly built underwater city.
- Champions Online, an MMORPG featuring an underwater city called Lumeria
- Deus Ex, a video game, features an underwater research laboratory called OceanLab.
- Sealab 2020, an animated series from the 1970s, takes place in a fictional underwater research lab, as does Cartoon Network's reworking of the show, Sealab 2021.
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- SeaQuest DSV featured numerous underwater colonies, research facilities, and military installations.
- Sphere, a novel that takes place in an underwater habitat.
- Various episodes of the BBC educational series Science In Action featured an Underwater Habitat that could house a U-Boat.
- In The Spy Who Loved Me, the film's villain, Karl Stromberg, lives in an underwater fortress.
- The TV series Stingray featured an underwater complex.
- Lost, a building known as the Looking Glass is an underwater station built by the Dharma Initiative.
- Ever 17, A game that tells the story of seven people who are trapped in an underwater theme park (LeMU) and their struggle to escape.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops, In the final mission the player attacks an underwater fortress
- Hello Down There, a movie about a family living in an underwater house
- Knights of the Old Republic, a Star Wars based game features a section that include an underwater habitat.
- Starfish (Novel), a science-fiction novel by Peter Watts, centers around an underwater habitat named after William Beebe.
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