In the 1960s television series, the captain of the Stingray was Troy Tempest.
The Hunt for Red October
The Captain of the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
It sounds something like a horribly garbled version of Thunderbirds or maybe Stingray. However in Stingray the ( Fish-Men) vaguely like Japs!were the bad guys. The main characters in Thunderbirds were human beings, the Tracy Brothers of the future version of a salvage company- the International Rescue. They used a wide variety of vehicles including specialized aircraft and one submarine, the Thunderbird 4. Your description, which includes (Three D animation- not a bad description of Supermarionation which used puppets to get a three-D effect) but these shows were mainly about human, not animal, characters.
steve urwin was killed by a stingray while filming a documentry
it's kinda crude, but they didn't know better. They called it a but.
Captain Submarine was created in 1972.
Superman, Stingray ( about a submarine, not the car)
Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain was created in 1991.
THE NAUTILUS
Down Periscope (1996) starring Kelsey Grammer (Frasier) and Lauren Holly is the movie that you are referring to where the crew plays gold on top of the old rusty submarine. Grammer stars as the subs captain. The sub is the USS Stingray.
Could you be thinking of Stingray? It was a kind of puppet show in the 1960's before Thunderbirds and made by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson. Troy Tempest was the submarine Captain with his sidekick 'phones'. There was a mute girl who swam called Marina.
Regardless of rank, the commanding officer of a ship is always referred to as the ship's captain.
He can, but he would normally have more important things to do.
scifi is a sub-genera of Science Fiction. It is fantasy disguised as science.
Captain Nemo's submarine from 20,000 leagues under the sea.
He was Commander Mochitsura Hashimoto.
The captain of the submarine raised the periscope to see if there's danger.