Once you have messed about in Los Santos for a while, blowing things up and grinding for cash or even picking up a few GTA 5 Modded Accounts, it is pretty easy to miss one of the quieter side gigs hidden out at sea. There is a whole collectible chain built around a wrecked submarine, and it only belongs to Michael. Trevor and Franklin can buy the right property, sure, but they will not trigger the story. The hook is simple on paper: 30 pieces of a destroyed sub scattered around the seabed, all tied to a strange woman called Abigail Mathers and her dead husband.

Getting The Mission Started

The game will not let you near this hunt until you have pushed the main story far enough to finish The Merryweather Heist. Once that is done, you need to drive up to Paleto Cove and look for the Sonar Collections Dock. It costs $250,000, which sounds rough at first, but by this stage you have probably got money coming in from heists and side work. Any character can actually buy the place, but the Stranger and Freaks line there only opens up for Michael. So you grab the dock, swap over to him, walk down to the pier, and the Death at Sea mission kicks in with Abigail waiting, acting upset and oddly cold at the same time.

Abigail, The Dock And Your New Toys

Once you have sat through her story about the sub disaster and her missing husband, the game quietly hands you one of the best little toys in that area of the map. A Dinghy spawns at the dock and stays there, and it comes with sonar built into the console. Michael also gets bottomless scuba gear. You jump out of the boat and he auto-switches into a wetsuit and tank, so you are not fighting the breath bar every few seconds. From there you lean heavily on Trackify on the in-game phone and the sonar pulse from the boat. The app gives you a rough direction, the sonar pings something below, and then you drop into that dark green water that never looks friendly.

Hunting For Sub Parts Underwater

Once you are down there, you realise how different it feels from the usual street chaos. Some of the 30 pieces sit on flat sand in shallow bays, easy to spot even if you are not paying much attention. Others are way more annoying. A few are wedged into rock cracks, some tucked inside busted hulls or bits of metal that look like they might collapse, and a couple sit down in deep channels where the light pretty much dies out. You find yourself nudging the camera around slowly, checking under beams, trying not to lose the tiny flash of metal in the gloom. It is not hard in the usual combat sense, but it can get tense when you cannot see much and the seabed drops away into black.

Why It Is Worth Diving Back In

As you chip away at the list, the whole thing feels less like a simple checklist and more like a weird little investigation. You are piecing together what really went on with that sub and whether Abigail is telling you everything, all while drifting past kelp forests, wrecks and the odd shark that makes you flinch even though you know the game is not trying to kill you every second. It is slower than most GTA V content and a bit of a grind if you rush it, but if you treat it as a change of pace from heists and car chases, it is a cool way to see a side of San Andreas that most players never bother with, especially if you are already stacked from heists or sitting on a few cheap GTA 5 Accounts.