The Deep Range
In the depths of the sea is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. The original English edition appeared in 1957 under the title The Deep Range, the German translation ( ISBN 3- 442-23011 -X) in 1962.
Content
The novel describes a part of the life of the fictional figure Walter Franklin. She plays in a future in which humans have created a world state, and at least in the second generation a fixed colony entertain on Mars. Franklin is married, has two children on Mars, and is the chief engineer of a starship of the Mars line. When a line drive kick on spaceship difficulties which tries to resolve Franklin with a outdoor use. Yet his space suit has a malfunction in the suit drive can not be turned off, and the wireless connection fails. Thus, away from Franklin spaceship and is four hours completely alone, without any contact in space. He suffers a breakdown, and after almost a year it is made by psychiatrists on the earth again. But he will never be able to make a space trip. As his wife and two children will never set foot on the earth because of gravity too high for them, his family is irrevocably broken. It is no longer possible personal meeting.
It is made the decision to train him as Wal- Boy. People have the world's oceans as far developed for themselves that they hold whales as ' pets ' breed and plankton in the sea. The Walherden be treasured (electric and acoustic ), and by fences by manned submarines. He goes through a shortened training and just before the end there is a new crisis. Franklin has in Indra Langenberg, which looks very similar to his wife, in love. The first company to the second he suffers at the sight of a space station and the smell of fuel, reminds him of the space, a collapse. In this crisis he makes an attempt at suicide, but is saved.
He begins work as Walinspektor after his education, marries Indra and with it also has two children: Peter and Anne. In addition to the routine service, he experienced some special events. The first adventure is to discover and capture a giant polyps. The animal killing whales, which is why planned to catch it alive, to investigate and to the ' marine show ' to sell. With some difficulty the company succeed. The second is the search for a sea serpent. In this, his former trainer and now best friend comes by an earthquake, where his submarine is spilled to.
Franklin is transported in the sea for conducting activities of the Director of Walamtes from active duty after 15 years. At the same time begins on Venus an intensive settlement and the use of the seas. During his first inspection of the laboratories of the Walamtes is demonstrated in how a Walkuh is milked. About his work, a detailed report will appear in a magazine. This takes a ' Mahanayake Thero ', the Buddhist leader as the basis to demand to stop the slaughter of whales. Buddhism is at the time the only real religion in the state that still has power. This supreme leader represents the idea:
Franklin agrees with this view later. In another, an extraordinary commitment, he freed up a spilled submarine with several passengers and saves their lives. He becomes a celebrity and it supports the idea Thero begins its triumphal march.
His children Peter and Anne travel in the last scene with a spaceship to Mars, there to begin their work and to take the first family of Franklin.
Surroundings
The book was published in 1957. It is the first book in which he deals with the oceans. This is the new interest Clarkes of underwater explorations, which he developed in 1950 owed . At this time he learned how to dive, visited Sri Lanka and wrote articles on the Indian Ocean. With his friend Mike Wilson, he filmed the Great Barrier Reef.