Finding your Inner Nemo

Captain Nemo, not the fish — the intrepid, submariner from Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. I’ve been thinking about him lately, also another imaginary undersea dynamo, Captain Marko Ramius from Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October.

What would it take to become a real fictional submarine captain?

What kind of life would I be leading? What kind of adventures would I find? What dangers? What glory?

Leading my crew beneath the waves. Resisting the pressures of the fates and fathoms above. Would we crack and succumb to the abyss or would we compress into diamonds under stress? Would the threat of foreign adversaries drive us deeper into the lairs of great leviathans and sea monsters? Would we be prey or predator? How would we decompress, both figuratively and literally?

Silently cutting our way through Poseidon’s realm, what mandate would propel our voyage:  adventure, exploration, conquest, salvage, piracy, survival, geopolitical chess?

Could we do as the crew of the Nautilus did, and travel 20,000 leagues or nearly 70,000 miles under the sea, almost tripling the circumference of the globe? Could my fictitious submarine best that fictional record? And could we do it in less than 88 days and break another imaginary feat? (I’m looking at you, Phileas Fogg!)

See what depths your imagination will plumb when you explore the USS Blueback at OMSI. Just watch your head — it’s entirely possible this post is a floor-based hallucination brought on by a solid head-thwump.

Matt Guy

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