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The Nautilus sank a few meters beneath the waves, and the panels opened.
He opened it and I saw a bundle of papers, yellowed but still legible.
The next day, January 5, after its deck paneling was opened, the skiff was wrenched from its socket and launched to sea from the top of the platform.
I opened my door, headed down the gangways, and climbed the central companionway.
Near two o'clock I was busy organizing my notes in the lounge, when the captain opened the door and appeared.
The double door opened, and accompanied by Captain Nemo with a dozen crewmen following, we set foot on the firm seafloor where the Nautilus was resting, ten meters down.
I was tempted to gather their fresh petals, which were adorned with delicate tentacles, some newly in bloom, others barely opened, while nimble fish with fluttering fins brushed past them like flocks of birds.
Next they're immersed in huge tanks of salt water, then they're opened up and washed.
One animal no less hideous, which I encountered several times, was the enormous crab that Mr. Darwin observed, to which nature has given the instinct and requisite strength to eat coconuts; it scrambles up trees on the beach and sends the coconuts tumbling; they fracture in their fall and are opened by its powerful pincers.
Just then a huge cave opened up in our path, hollowed from a picturesque pile of rocks whose smooth heights were completely hung with underwater flora.
Then the shark's jaws opened astoundingly wide, like a pair of industrial shears, and that would have been the finish of Captain Nemo had not Ned Land, quick as thought, rushed forward with his harpoon and driven its dreadful point into the shark's underside.
He opened his eyes.
Its deck paneling opened, the skiff was wrenched from its socket and launched to sea.
In midstair he opened a door, went along the upper gangways, and arrived at the wheelhouse, which, as you know, stands at one end of the platform.
Dark and deep, a wide gallery opened ahead of us.
Then, contrary to custom, he ordered that both panels in the lounge be opened, and going from the one to the other, he carefully observed the watery mass.
Just then, ignoring my presence, the captain opened this cabinet, a sort of safe that contained a large number of ingots.
The panels had opened, and I could see a completely white sea around the Nautilus.
Crossing through the lounge, I arrived at the door, contrived in one of the canted corners, that opened into the captain's stateroom.
I opened the door leading to the library.
Just then the door to the main lounge opened and Captain Nemo appeared.
Huge glades opened up, seemingly cleared by the hand of man, and I sometimes wondered whether some residents of these underwater regions would suddenly appear before me.
The panels in the lounge opened, and maneuvers began for reaching those strata so prodigiously far removed.
The hatch opened and we rushed onto the platform.
Finally, at six o'clock in the morning on that memorable day of March 19, the lounge door opened.
Moreover, the panels opened just then, and the outside light burst through the uncovered windows.
The stopcocks of the ballast tanks were then opened wide, and 100 cubic meters of water rushed in, increasing the Nautilus's weight by 100,000 kilograms.
I opened it and went below to the lounge.
The ceiling lights in the lounge then went out, the panels opened, and through the windows I saw, for a half-mile radius, the sea brightly lit by the beacon's rays.
When it was all over, Captain Nemo headed to the door of his stateroom, opened it, and entered.
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