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Captain(船长) Nemo invited me and my friends to go hunting with him in the
forests of Crespo Island. I asked him why he was so interested in Crespo
Island, "I thought you preferred the sea to being on land."
"I do," replied the captain. "But these
forests are under the sea."
After going through a door, we were about ten metres under the
water. The light from the sun reached us. Everything looked very colourful. We
were going deeper and deeper. At 100 metres deep, we could see quite well, and
Captain Nemo stopped and pointed to some dark shapes. This was the forest. The "trees"
in the forest were giant seaweed(海草), and all their "branches" were vertical(垂直的).We could not stop looking at them. Fish
swam around the branches like birds in a forest.
Suddenly, I saw a large sea spider about a metre tall. It
was going to attack me. Captain Nemo's man killed it with his gun, but it
reminded me that the sea could be as dangerous as it was beautiful. When we
reached 150 metres, it was dark. The sun's light could not reach this depth(深度). We turned on our lights. We could see about
20 metres around us. Finally, we found Crespo Island—where a steep rock wall
rose in front of us.
We could go no further, so we walked back towards the
Nautilus. Suddenly, Captain Nemo stopped and shot an animal with his gun, it
was a beautiful and rare sea otter(水獭). At last, we could see the Nautilus. Several large sharks swam
over us. Luckily they didn't see us. We re-entered the Nautilus safely. I was
tired but amazed by what I had seen.