# For Fans of Jules Verne's 20,000 LUTS

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 13, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-of-jules-vernes-20-000-luts/128370 "2002-09-13T23:48:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2002, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-of-jules-vernes-20-000-luts/128370/1 "2002-09-13T23:48:58Z")

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[http://home.att.net/~karen.crisafulli/nautilus.html](http://home.att.net/~karen.crisafulli/nautilus.html)

I came upon this site while searching for submarine info and found it very interesting for Verne fans.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-of-jules-vernes-20-000-luts/128370/2 "2002-09-14T02:17:50Z")

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Very Neat! 'll have to explore it all.  
May I also recommend **The Annotated 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea** with annotations by Walter James Miller (if you can find it, used. It’s out of print) or his more recent Translation of 20K LUTS.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-of-jules-vernes-20-000-luts/128370/3 "2002-09-14T02:20:27Z")

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So if, like, a league is 3 miles, they were 60,000 miles deep?

Just kidding.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-of-jules-vernes-20-000-luts/128370/4 "2002-09-14T02:35:13Z")

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> [@](#):
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> So if, like, a league is 3 miles, they were 60,000 miles deep?
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> Just kidding.

Hey, this confused the heck out of me as a kid. I thought 20,000 leagues meant 20,000 _straight down_. As an adult, just didn’t think about it, until I read the novel again.  
It’s 20,000 leauges going around underwater, of course. I wonder how many people still think it’s 20K leages down?

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-of-jules-vernes-20-000-luts/128370/5 "2002-09-14T03:33:51Z")

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It confused me, too.

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2002, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-fans-of-jules-vernes-20-000-luts/128370/6 "2002-09-14T08:21:36Z")

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Actually, I thought a league was roughly six feet.