Jules Verne, the Father of Modern Science Fiction, is indeed immortal and eternally young across three centuries. In "Masters of the Sea: The Adventures of Jules Verne s Mathias Sandorf," we pay tribute to Verne, who inspired pioneers throughout the world for generations. Here, we take Verne s ultimate prediction of communication with our friends of the watery deep to its outer limits. In fact, communication with these friends was heralded throughout the world when, in 2003, America used dolphins to clear mines designed to hamper the invasion from the port of Unn Qasr in...

Jules Verne, the Father of Modern Science Fiction, is indeed immortal and eternally young across three centuries. In "Masters of the Sea: The Adventures of Jules Verne s Mathias Sandorf," we pay tribute to Verne, who inspired pioneers throughout the world for generations. Here, we take Verne s ultimate prediction of communication with our friends of the watery deep to its outer limits. In fact, communication with these friends was heralded throughout the world when, in 2003, America used dolphins to clear mines designed to hamper the invasion from the port of Unn Qasr in...