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 the time of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"'s publication, this was worth 4.6 billion francs, or $18.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2018. Nemo tells Professor Aronnax that his intention was to have his autobiography sealed in an unsinkable casket and thrown overboard by the last survivor of the "Nautilus"'s crew, in the hope that it would be washed up somewhere. Accordingly an unsinkable casket does wash up in "The Mysterious Island" (wherein is revealed Nemo's background story), containing tools, guns, navigation instruments, an atlas, books, blank paper, and even clothing. The crate is lashed to empty barrels, and the