Depths
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On both sides I had windows opening over these unexplored
depths.
The seafloor kept sinking, and its significantly steeper slope took us to greater
depths.
Captain Nemo continued to plummet into the dark
depths
of this forest, whose shrubbery grew ever more sparse.
I've seen a molecule of salt water heat up at the surface, sink into the depths, reach maximum density at -2 degrees centigrade, then cool off, grow lighter, and rise again.
And the helmsman, standing alone, calmer, his face smooth and serious, his grizzled hair plastered to his brow, his hands clutching the wheel, seemed even yet to be guiding his wrecked three-master through the ocean
depths!
The tiny microscopic animals that secrete this polypary live by the billions in the
depths
of their cells.
But just then the Nautilus's slanting fins took us to great depths, and I could see nothing of those high coral walls.
By contrast, Captain Nemo would seek the sea's temperature by going himself into its depths, and when he placed his thermometer in contact with the various layers of liquid, he found the sought-for degree immediately and with certainty.
And so, by loading up its ballast tanks, or by sinking obliquely with its slanting fins, the Nautilus successively reached
depths
of 3,000, 4,000, 5,000, 7,000, 9,000, and 10,000 meters, and the ultimate conclusion from these experiments was that, in all latitudes, the sea had a permanent temperature of 4.5 degrees centigrade at a depth of 1,000 meters.
For several days our work hours were spent in all sorts of experiments, on the degree of salinity in waters of different depths, or on their electric properties, coloration, and transparency, and in every instance Captain Nemo displayed an ingenuity equaled only by his graciousness toward me.
And so Captain Nemo would live out his life entirely in the heart of this immense sea, and even his grave lay ready in its impenetrable
depths.
It also got more unpredictable, often taking us to great
depths.
Thus we went as deep as two or three kilometers down but without ever verifying the lowest
depths
of this sea near India, which soundings of 13,000 meters have been unable to reach.
Why had our incomprehensible guide taken us into the
depths
of this underwater crypt?
For four days until February 3, the Nautilus inspected the Gulf of Oman at various speeds and
depths.
This, he claims, is a sea subject to fearful hurricanes, strewn with inhospitable islands, and 'with nothing good to offer,' either on its surface or in its
depths.
Thanks to him and his submersible, I was finishing my undersea research by the day, and I was rewriting my book on the great ocean
depths
in the midst of its very element.
Either the Nautilus surfaced only enough to let its pilothouse emerge, or it slipped away to the lower depths, although, between the Greek Islands and Asia Minor, we didn't find bottom even at 2,000 meters down.
The next day, February 16, we left this basin, which tallies
depths
of 3,000 meters between Rhodes and Alexandria, and passing well out from Cerigo Island after doubling Cape Matapan, the Nautilus left the Greek Islands behind.
Among the Brachyura, Conseil mentions some amanthia crabs whose fronts were armed with two big diverging tips, those inachus scorpions that-- lord knows why--symbolized wisdom to the ancient Greeks, spider crabs of the massena and spinimane varieties that had probably gone astray in these shallows because they usually live in the lower depths, xanthid crabs, pilumna crabs, rhomboid crabs, granular box crabs (easy on the digestion, as Conseil ventured to observe), toothless masked crabs, ebalia crabs, cymopolia crabs, woolly-handed crabs, etc.
I observed that these Mediterranean
depths
became more and more cluttered with such gruesome wreckage as the Nautilus drew nearer to the Strait of Gibraltar.
Oh, what a gruesome tale these Mediterranean
depths
could tell, this huge boneyard where so much wealth has been lost, where so many victims have met their deaths!
"So far you've visited the ocean
depths
only by day and under sunlight.
Would you like to see these
depths
on a dark night?""Very much."
Would I find a whole colony of exiles down here, men tired of the world's woes, men who had sought and found independence in the ocean's lower
depths?
Numerous underwater volcanoes have been sighted in this part of the ocean, and many ships have felt terrific tremors when passing over these turbulent
depths.
He had thumbed through my work on the great ocean depths, and the margins were covered with his notes, which sometimes contradicted my theories and formulations.
Captain Nemo decided to take his Nautilus down to the lowest
depths
in order to double-check these different soundings.
Some of these animals can thrive only at the surface of seas or rivers, but a minority can dwell at fairly great
depths.
I asked Captain Nemo if he had observed any fish at more considerable
depths.
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