Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (novel) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a science-fiction novel written by Theodore Sturgeon and first published in 1961 by Pyramid Books. Sturgeon wrote the novel from the screenplay that Irwin Allen and Charles Bennett wrote from an original story written by Irwin Allen. The movie also inspired a television series that ran for four years on ABC. Under the command of Captain Lee Crane and with Admiral Harriman Nelson, Vice-Admiral B. J. Crawford, Congressman Llewellyn Parker, and psychologist Susan Hiller aboard, the nuclear-powered submarine USOS. "Seaview" goes under the Arctic
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series) a yellow, two-man mini-submarine with passenger capacity, armed with a laser gun. It could leave the ocean and function as an airplane. The "Flying Sub" was referred to by the initials "FS-1". The futuristic craft greatly increased the "Seaview" crew's travel options. It was launched from a bay with automatic doors added in the lower part of the bow section of "Seaview" that was apparently built between Seasons One and Two. The "Seaview"'s private observation deck from the first season was never seen again. The ship's eight smaller observation windows became four large windows giving the sub a sleeker, more