Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the worlds oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo. The abridged adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the worlds oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo. Jules Verne’s classic science fiction fantasy carries its hero—Professor Aronnax of the Museum of Paris—on a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves to see what creatures live in the ocean’s depths. In the process, Verne imagined a vessel that had not yet been invented: the submarine.