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That day the Nautilus was put to work in some depth-sounding experiments that fascinated me deeply.
Captain Nemo decided to take his Nautilus down to the lowest depths in order to double-check these different soundings.
Perhaps they wouldn't sufficiently increase the Nautilus's specific gravity.
Captain Nemo decided to make for the ocean floor by submerging on an appropriately gradual diagonal with the help of his side fins, which were set at a 45 degrees angle to the Nautilus's waterline.
Under this powerful thrust the Nautilus's hull quivered like a resonating chord, and the ship sank steadily under the waters.
Despite the powerful pressures it was undergoing, the Nautilus sank still deeper.
But soon these last representatives of animal life vanished, and three vertical leagues down, the Nautilus passed below the limits of underwater existence just as an air balloon rises above the breathable zones in the sky.
We reached a depth of 16,000 meters-- four vertical leagues--and by then the Nautilus's plating was tolerating a pressure of 1,600 atmospheres, in other words, 1,600 kilograms per each square centimeter on its surface!
With the thrust of its propeller curbed by the slant of its fins, the Nautilus stood still.
We mustn't push our luck and expose the Nautilus too long to these pressures."
Its fins set vertically, its propeller thrown in gear at the captain's signal, the Nautilus rose with lightning speed, shooting upward like an air balloon into the sky.
CHAPTER 12Sperm Whales and Baleen WhalesDURING THE NIGHT of March 13-14, the Nautilus resumed its southward heading.
"Go on, Ned.""How many men do you think are on board the Nautilus?"
"Because," I said, "if I can trust my hunches, if I truly understand the captain's way of life, his Nautilus isn't simply a ship.
"Perhaps," Conseil said, "but in a nutshell, the Nautilus can hold only a certain number of men, so couldn't master estimate their maximum?"
Master is familiar with the ship's capacity, hence the amount of air it contains; on the other hand, master knows how much air each man consumes in the act of breathing, and he can compare this data with the fact that the Nautilus must rise to the surface every twenty-four hours . .
"Now then," I went on, "the Nautilus's capacity is 1,500 metric tons, and that of a ton is 1,000 liters, so the Nautilus holds 1,500,000 liters of air, which, divided by 2,400 . .
Which is tantamount to saying that the air contained in the Nautilus would be exactly enough for 625 men over twenty-four hours."
Near eleven o'clock in the morning, while on the surface of the ocean, the Nautilus fell in with a herd of baleen whales.
If you looked carefully, you could see its blackish back alternately rise and fall above the waves, five miles from the Nautilus.
Captain Nemo observed the herd of cetaceans cavorting on the waters a mile from the Nautilus.
The battle between sperm whales and baleen whales had already begun when the Nautilus arrived.
Brandished in its captain's hands, the Nautilus was simply a fearsome harpoon.
Several times ten or twelve of them teamed up, trying to crush the Nautilus with their sheer mass.
The waves were dyed red over an area of several miles, and the Nautilus was floating in the middle of a sea of blood.
"It was a slaughter of destructive animals," the captain replied, "and the Nautilus is no butcher knife."
But his anger was diverted by the sight of a baleen whale that the Nautilus had pulled alongside of just then.
Mistaking the Nautilus for the corpse of a whale, some of them alighted on it and prodded its resonant sheet iron with pecks of their beaks.
Guided by his skillful hands, the Nautilus passed by all these different masses of ice, which are classified by size and shape with a precision that enraptured Conseil: "icebergs," or mountains; "ice fields," or smooth, limitless tracts; "drift ice," or floating floes; "packs," or broken tracts, called "patches" when they're circular and "streams" when they form long strips.
If the Nautilus was submerged during these losses of balance, we heard the resulting noises spread under the waters with frightful intensity, and the collapse of these masses created daunting eddies down to the ocean's lower strata.
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