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But lower down, while diving beneath that surface, isn't your submersible going to encounter a pressure, and consequently undergo an upward thrust, that must be assessed at one atmosphere per every thirty feet of water, hence at about one kilogram per each square centimeter?""Precisely, sir.""Then unless you fill up the whole Nautilus, I don't see how you can force it down into the heart of these liquid masses."
"When I wanted to determine what increase in weight the Nautilus needed to be given in order to submerge, I had only to take note of the proportionate reduction in volume that salt water experiences in deeper and deeper strata."
"Here I'm naturally led into telling you how the Nautilus is maneuvered."
If they slant, the Nautilus follows the angle of that slant and, under its propeller's thrust, either sinks on a diagonal as steep as it suits me, or rises on that diagonal.
Pertinent to this, I'll ask you if the Nautilus's running afoul of the Scotia, which caused such a great uproar, was the result of an accidental encounter?"
"Ah, commander," I exclaimed with conviction, "your Nautilus is truly a marvelous boat!""Yes, professor," Captain Nemo replied with genuine excitement, "and I love it as if it were my own flesh and blood!
Aboard a conventional ship, facing the ocean's perils, danger lurks everywhere; on the surface of the sea, your chief sensation is the constant feeling of an underlying chasm, as the Dutchman Jansen so aptly put it; but below the waves aboard the Nautilus, your heart never fails you!
And if it's true that the engineer has more confidence in a craft than the builder, and the builder more than the captain himself, you can understand the utter abandon with which I place my trust in this Nautilus, since I'm its captain, builder, and engineer all in one!"
"But how were you able to build this wonderful Nautilus in secret?""Each part of it, Professor Aronnax, came from a different spot on the globe and reached me at a cover address.
There our Nautilus was completed by me and my workmen, in other words, by my gallant companions whom I've molded and educated.
Now then, the Nautilus has a burden of 1,500 metric tons.
The pumps began to expel water from the ballast tanks; on the pressure gauge, a needle marked the decreasing pressures that indicated the Nautilus's upward progress; then the needle stopped.
I climbed its metal steps, passed through the open hatches, and arrived topside on the Nautilus.
Fore and aft stood two cupolas of moderate height, their sides slanting and partly inset with heavy biconvex glass, one reserved for the helmsman steering the Nautilus, the other for the brilliance of the powerful electric beacon lighting his way.
They all centered on the Nautilus's commander.
It was this current the Nautilus was about to cross.
And trust me on this: for the time being, get rid of these notions of taking over the Nautilus or escaping from it.
The sea was clearly visible for a one-mile radius around the Nautilus.
But in this fluid setting traveled by the Nautilus, our electric glow was being generated in the very heart of the waves.
Cavorting around the Nautilus was a school of triggerfish with flat bodies, grainy skins, armed with stings on their dorsal fins, and with four prickly rows of quills quivering on both sides of their tails.
For two hours a whole aquatic army escorted the Nautilus.
But what were mere winds to this Nautilus, which no storms could intimidate!
I thought the Nautilus was about to resume its underwater navigating.
CAPTAIN NEMO, Commander of the Nautilus.
So we were about 1,800 miles from our starting point, and by a slight change of heading, the Nautilus was bringing us back toward the southeast.
When I woke up the next day, November 17, I sensed that the Nautilus was completely motionless.
I stared at the Nautilus's commander with an air anything but flattering to the man.
He's attached to a pump that sends him air through an india-rubber hose; it's an actual chain that fetters him to the shore, and if we were to be bound in this way to the Nautilus, we couldn't go far either."
But I repeat: having no gunpowder, I've replaced it with air at high pressure, which is abundantly supplied me by the Nautilus's pumps."
Captain Nemo led me to the Nautilus's stern, and passing by Ned and Conseil's cabin, I summoned my two companions, who instantly followed us.
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