Nautilus (Verne) from seawater) is the craft's primary power source for propulsion and other services. "Nautilus" is double-hulled, and is further separated into water-tight compartments. Its top speed is . Its displacement is submerged. In Captain Nemo's own words: "Nautilus" uses floodable tanks in order to adjust buoyancy and so control its depth. The pumps that evacuate these tanks of water are so powerful that they produce large jets of water when the vessel emerges rapidly from the surface of the water. This leads many early observers of "Nautilus" to believe that the vessel is some species of whale, or perhaps a
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne The Fabulous World of Jules Verne The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (, literally The Deadly Invention or An Invention for Destruction) is a 1958 Czechoslovak black-and-white science fiction adventure film, produced by Zdeněk Novák, directed by Karel Zeman, that stars Lubor Tokoš, Arnošt Navrátil, and Miloslav Holub. Based on several works by Jules Verne, primarily his 1896 novel "Facing the Flag", the film evokes the original illustrations for Verne's works by combining live actors with various forms of animation. The film made its North American debut in 1961 through Warner Bros. Pictures. Soon after, it was distributed to 72