«Alright Mr Aronnax, this is our boat. A long cone-pointed cylinder. Very close to a cigar for its shape, which seems to have become very popular for other boats in London. The cylinder’s length, from onne end to the other, is exactly seventy metres, its width eight. It was not built following other boats’ proportions, yet it shows stretched lines and a sleek hull, so that water can slip on it and oppose no resistance. The two dimensions I gave you will easily allow you to calculate Nautilus’s surface and volume. The former is exactly 1011,45 square metres, for a 1500,2 cubic-meter volume. once under waterit
