Finding Nemo all but one of the eggs gone. He names this last egg "Nemo", a name that Coral had chosen. On the first day of school, the overprotective Marlin embarrasses Nemo during a field trip. While Marlin talks to the teacher, Mr. Ray, Nemo sneaks away from the reef toward a boat and is captured by a scuba diver. As the boat departs, one of the divers accidentally knocks his diving mask overboard. Marlin chases after the boat and meets Dory, a blue tang who suffers from short-term memory loss. The two encounter Bruce, Anchor and Chum, three reformed sharks who
Captain Nemo Phileas Fogg". "Nemo" is Latin for "no one". "Nemo" is, moreover, the Latin rendering of Ancient Greek "Outis" ("Nobody"), the pseudonym adopted by Odysseus, in Greek mythology—a ruse employed to outwit the cyclops Polyphemus. This appears to be the intended meaning, since in "The Mysterious Island", when addressed by Cyrus Harding as Captain Nemo, he replies, "I have no name!" Nothing concerning his past is revealed in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", except his dislike of imperialism (and of British imperial society more generally) and the apparent loss of his family in the past. In "The Mysterious Island", Captain