Because Bond never really dies. He just reloads.
A Union Jack parachute. A sea base swallowing tankers. Jaws, the steel-toothed giant, grinned through a submarine door. Bond and a Russian agent shared a bed, a gun, and eventually, a life raft.
Introduced the submersible Lotus Esprit and the legendary henchman Jaws.
Expanded the franchise scale through technical underwater combat sequences.
A deliberate return to grounded, low-tech mountain and sea reconnaissance.