Background photograph © Copyright 1999 National Geographic Society. All rights reserved.

Technically, this was a fairly easy rendering. The background is an actual photograph taken underwater in the Antarctic by Norbert Wu. This and other photos in a February 1999 National Geographic article confirm Verne's description of the clarity of this sea. The propeller wake, actually a fire volumetric object, was the most difficult item. A single overhead light provides the scene lighting with ambient light nearly zero. The Nautilus lantern and other running lights are not illuminated. An interior light is turned up to light the salon interior. This is somewhat untrue to the novel since the narrative states the salon lights go off before the panels open. The only post-processing was image cropping.