Where's Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino of NUMA?
Probably right there, having been brought in as a salvage consultant but subsequently recruited by NATO covert ops to help foil a dastardly plot by a secret organisation to steal the guidance system of a prototype hypersonic antiship missile carried onboard for sale to the highest bidder
Unfortunately they ran into spies, femme fatales and combat divers of the Russian, Chinese, Israeli and Iranian Navies all aimed at the same objective. Much derring-do and blood-chilling underwater combat was had and the guidance system was safely restored into NATO hands
Whereupon Dirk discovered he was really employed by a rogue admiral who wanted the system so he could fit it onto an air-launched cruise missile which could deliver a nerve agent precisely into the HQ of NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in the Baltics, with planted evidence pointing at Russia and precipitating WW3 thus avenging said rogue admiral on all participants of the senseless Cold War which deprived him of his daughter many decades ago
After a thrilling car, helicopter and private jet chase Dirk managed to engineer the lawndarting of the admiral's modified Su-27 destroying the missile and nerve gas, and has the admiral arrested by the real Military Intelligence after which he goes back to the quiet life of actually raising the Helge Ingstad for reals.
All of which happened without a peep in the media, I swear. Ah the things our Govts cover up.