20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985 film) the other hand, Captain Nemo has a great respect toward his men as well as the oceans of the world and their creatures. At the beginning of the voyage, the Nautilus is attacked by a giant squid that grabs Nemo but is killed by Ned. In the waters off India, Nemo saves a pearl-diver from a hungry shark and gives her a pearl. He then prevents Ned from killing a dugong. Ned, the professor, and Conseil escape the Nautilus by rowing to a tropical island but are chased back to the Nautilus by natives, whom Nemo scares away with electricity.
Captain Nemo said to have died of old age, on board the "Nautilus", at Dakkar Grotto on Lincoln Island in the South Pacific. Funeral rites were administered by Cyrus Harding, one of the castaways protected by Nemo himself, and his vessel was then submerged in the waters of the grotto. Nemo's character in the novels is largely seen through the observations of Professor Pierre Aronnax, the narrator of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", when Nemo is about forty years of age and described as a reticent man, tall and swarthy in appearance, with a straight nose and wide-set eyes. In "The