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The aqualung allowed for the first time untethered, free-floating extended deep water diving, and ushered in the modern era of scuba diving. Later chapters include excursions diving to shipwrecks. It was the basis of the Academy Award-winning documentary The Silent World (1956).
The story describes the final adventure of a "nine-hundred ton, iron, schooner-rigged, screw cargo-boat", that has been used for various missions of doubtful legitimacy, in various parts of the world, with several changes of name. "Fate and her owner, who was also her captain, decreed that she should deal with embarrassed crowned heads, fleeing ...
This is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place either partially or primarily underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments , or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty Thousand ...
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
The scene at the bottom of the sea is edited to appear scarier and more mysterious. Instead of conversing with one another and discussing the submarine, the deep sea fish flee in terror, and quietly warn the adventurers about an approaching danger: the Sea Hound, a giant, predatory aquatic monster with the head of a dog.
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II is a 2004 non-fiction book by Robert Kurson recounting of the discovery of a World War II German U-boat 60 miles (97 km) off the coast of New Jersey, United States in 1991, exploration dives, and its eventual identification as U-869 lost on 11 February 1945.
The novel follows the underwater adventures of a Navy deep-sea diver named Jonas Taylor. In 2018, a film adaptation titled The Meg was released. A revised and expanded version of the novel (also containing the prequel Meg: Origins ) was also released to coincide with the film's debut.