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���many occasions the actors in their heavy (living-suits were swept out of the c.iinira's ranjfc. Other dangers not stipulatcfl in tile scenario were provided by curious and in\'esligating giant (isli. The divers succeeded in lireaking one age-old tradition. The\' found that a shark could lie frightened away very easih'. Another lisli, the liarracouta, gave them more trouble. 'I'lu' harra- couta is long, slim, swift and exceedingly

��The I./Owcr Plane Was, in Real- ity, Stationary, Being Suspended by Strong but Invisible Wires Be- tween the Two Cliffs. The Upper Machine Swooped Down on the Lower One in Mid-Air. Dropped a Bomb Upon It and Destroyed It

��vicious. Barracouta in swarms, or schools, would attack the men, and could be driven away only after I fierce battle.

Love-Makiug at the Bottom of the Sea

Not only were fights with barracouta

and fights between men staged on the ocean floor, but many of the dramatic e\ents of the story took place there. A rubber-dad hero wooetl his rubber-clad heroine. A burial took jilacc, and treasure was hunted and found. In fact, as many of the features of Verne's story as could be consistently were reproduced.

The actors were dresst'd for the under- water .scenes in di\ ing-suits, which wi're pro\i<led with tanks of ox\gi'n and air

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