Oceanpunk is a science fiction genre centred around technology used to explore, colonise or traverse the sea, as well as humanity's relationship with the sea in a sometimes apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic environment. Oceanpunk's visual aesthetic has a lot similarities and connections with steampunk, most notably the wooden ships and buildings and sometimes Victorian style technology.

Not to be confused with Seapunk , a sea-themed fashion aesthetic popularised in the 2000s on Tumblr.

The genre's concept was first started in America with Jules Verne's 1872 novel ' Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas' But the oceanpunk term and genre was first popularised in the 1990s with films such as ' Waterworld', 'Deep Blue Sea', and other such films.

Oceanpunk imagery includes: