If you have spent any real time blasting around Los Santos leaving wrecked cop cars behind you, there is a good chance you drove straight past one of the more chilled jobs in the game, tucked away under the water rather than in the streets, and if you are running around on powerful GTA 5 Modded Accounts you might shrug it off at first as just another collect‑them‑all checklist thing.

Getting The Sub Hunt Started

The game does not let you jump into the submarine search right away; you have got to push the main story forward until you finish "The Merryweather Heist", then the whole thing quietly opens up and you can drive up the coast to Paleto Cove where a small but important property is waiting for you, the Sonar Collections Dock, which costs $250,000 so it stings a bit but by this stage most players have more than enough cash sitting around from heists or side gigs so it feels more like an investment than a risk.

You can technically buy that dock with any of the three main characters, but the actual mission line only belongs to Michael, so once you own it you switch over to him and walk down to the pier to trigger the "Death at Sea" Strangers and Freaks mission, where you meet Abigail, calm on the surface but clearly hanging onto this story about her husband and the wrecked sub, and the whole tone shifts from simple collectables to a quiet little murder mystery sitting under the waves.

Gear, Sonar And The First Dive

Once you have spoken to Abigail, the game hands you a Dinghy that spawns at the dock, nothing flashy but it is yours and it comes with sonar built into it, so you cruise out, watch that radar sweep the water, and as soon as you jump in Michael auto‑equips a wetsuit and scuba tank so you do not have to mess around buying gear or panicking over the oxygen bar every few seconds, which makes a big difference because your focus shifts from staying alive to actually exploring.

You rely on two things to track the parts, the Trackify app buzzing on Michael's phone and the sonar pulses on the boat, and on the surface it feels simple enough, but once you leave the ladder and start swimming down you realise how dark and murky the ocean is, how the sound drops away and the visibility shrinks fast, and suddenly you are not thinking about cops or wanted levels, you are squinting at rocks and wreckage, trying to spot metal shapes on the seabed while the water gets colder and the screen gets darker.

Hunting All 30 Pieces

The job is to find 30 separate fragments scattered all around the coast, and a few of them are almost a freebie because they sit in shallow sand or lie right next to a bit of obvious debris, so you grab those early and feel like it is going to be easy, then the game throws the nasty ones at you, pieces tucked into deep cuts in the seabed, hidden in coral or wedged inside rusted wreckage where you have to swim under a twisted beam or around a broken hull to actually see the glow.

The trick is to swim slow and let your eyes adjust, because some parts are half buried or match the rocks so closely that you will swim past them again and again, and after a while it becomes less about racing for completion and more about wandering through a surprisingly detailed underwater world where fish drift past your mask, light fades in patches, and every new fragment pushes you closer to figuring out what really happened with Abigail's husband and that sub, which makes finishing the hunt feel like closing a strange little chapter in Michael's life rather than ticking a box on a checklist, especially if you are the kind of player who enjoys squeezing every story beat out of the game while you mess around on your GTA 5 Modded Accounts buy.