In 1896 the time of our story, the airplane, the automobile, radio, all were but a glean in the brain of geniuses. These discoveries were yet to come. The two young biologists of our tale have already accomplished a miracle never before attempted by man. In their specially constructed iron globe equipped with every scientific devise known at the time they have probed 5 miles below sea level to the bottom most part of the oceans. In the interest of enlarging man’s knowledge of the world about him and the world beneath him they have made their first amazing discovery…

H G Wells