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I was navigating two meters beneath the surface of the water when the collision occurred.
There are no structural deformities to worry about, because the double hull of this boat has the rigidity of iron; no rigging to be worn out by rolling and pitching on the waves; no sails for the wind to carry off; no boilers for steam to burst open; no fires to fear, because this submersible is made of sheet iron not wood; no coal to run out of, since electricity is its mechanical force; no collisions to fear, because it navigates the watery deep all by itself; no storms to brave, because just a few meters beneath the waves, it finds absolute tranquility!
Then, during the Silurian period, the tops of mountains gradually appeared above the waves, islands emerged, disappeared beneath temporary floods, rose again, were fused to form continents, and finally the earth's geography settled into what we have today.
Lighting up the seafloor even thirty feet beneath the surface of the ocean, the sun astonished me with its power.
This forest was made up of big treelike plants, and when we entered beneath their huge arches, my eyes were instantly struck by the unique arrangement of their branches--an arrangement that I had never before encountered.
Speaking for myself, I was glad to oblige, and we stretched out beneath an arbor of winged kelp, whose long thin tendrils stood up like arrows.
I was stretched out on the seafloor directly beneath some bushes of algae, when I raised my head and spied two enormous masses hurtling by, throwing off phosphorescent glimmers.
The Nautilus sank a few meters beneath the waves, and the panels opened.
There were mimosas, banyan trees, beefwood, teakwood, hibiscus, screw pines, palm trees, all mingling in wild profusion; and beneath the shade of their green canopies, at the feet of their gigantic trunks, there grew orchids, leguminous plants, and ferns.
While exchanging this chitchat, we entered beneath the dark canopies of the forest, and for two hours we explored it in every direction.
Beneath their pierced, distended earlobes there dangled strings of beads made from bone.
On January 16 the Nautilus seemed to have fallen asleep just a few meters beneath the surface of the water.
Gleaming with dark fire, his eyes had shrunk beneath his frowning brow.
I fancied I saw these cylindrical, membrane-filled tubes trembling beneath the water's undulations.
Captain Nemo entered beneath a dark gallery whose gentle slope took us to a depth of 100 meters.
Then the funeral party went back up the path to the Nautilus, returning beneath the arches of the forest, through the thickets, along the coral bushes, going steadily higher.
Then he added:"There lies our peaceful cemetery, hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the waves!""At least, captain, your dead can sleep serenely there, out of the reach of sharks!""Yes, sir," Captain Nemo replied solemnly, "of sharks and men!"SECOND PARTCHAPTER 1 The Indian OceanNOW WE BEGIN the second part of this voyage under the seas.
By leaving the pearl buried beneath the giant clam's mantle, he allowed it to grow imperceptibly.
One concerned Captain Nemo's matchless bravery, the other his devotion to a human being, a representative of that race from which he had fled beneath the seas.
But it was only a fleeting vision, and the Nautilus soon sank beneath the dark waves of these waterways.
How many new specimens of underwater flora and fauna I marveled at beneath the light of our electric beacon!
Soon Jidda faded into the shadows of evening, and the Nautilus went back beneath the mildly phosphorescent waters.
But this rope measured no more than about ten fathoms, and its end had simply been fastened to a small barrel that, while floating, would indicate the dugong's movements beneath the waters.
From eight to nine o'clock, the Nautilus stayed a few meters beneath the waters.
And now if you'll kindly go below, Professor Aronnax, the Nautilus is about to sink beneath the waves, and it will only return to the surface after we've cleared the Arabian Tunnel."
Hoisted on board, the longboat was readjusted into its socket, and the Nautilus plunged back beneath the waves.
On the rocky, volcanic seafloor, there bloomed quite a collection of moving flora: sponges, sea cucumbers, jellyfish called sea gooseberries that were adorned with reddish tendrils and gave off a subtle phosphorescence, members of the genus Beroe that are commonly known by the name melon jellyfish and are bathed in the shimmer of the whole solar spectrum, free-swimming crinoids one meter wide that reddened the waters with their crimson hue, treelike basket stars of the greatest beauty, sea fans from the genus Pavonacea with long stems, numerous edible sea urchins of various species, plus green sea anemones with a grayish trunk and a brown disk lost beneath the olive-colored tresses of their tentacles.
Just then a fairly loud hissing told me that the ballast tanks were filling, and the Nautilus sank beneath the waves of the Atlantic.
In fact, there beneath my eyes was a town in ruins, demolished, overwhelmed, laid low, its roofs caved in, its temples pulled down, its arches dislocated, its columns stretching over the earth; in these ruins you could still detect the solid proportions of a sort of Tuscan architecture; farther off, the remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here, the caked heights of an acropolis along with the fluid forms of a Parthenon; there, the remnants of a wharf, as if some bygone port had long ago harbored merchant vessels and triple-tiered war galleys on the shores of some lost ocean; still farther off, long rows of collapsing walls, deserted thoroughfares, a whole Pompeii buried under the waters, which Captain Nemo had resurrected before my eyes!
As for the foregrounds passing before our eyes, they were fantastically carved rocks, forests of trees that had crossed over from the vegetable kingdom into the mineral kingdom, their motionless silhouettes sprawling beneath the waves.
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