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P199：
The ancients understood that the opening of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea was good for their trade. But they didn't think of digging a straight canal, but rather borrowing the Nile. According to legend, the canal connecting the Nile and the Red Sea was probably excavated during the Time of the Thessosterian Dynasty in Egypt. One thing is certain, nikos dug a canal to the Nile in 615 BC on the Egyptian plains across the sea from the Arabian region. The canal was wide enough to accommodate only two three-decker paddle warships in parallel, and the length was the distance that such warships sailed for four days. Sistap's son Darius inherited Nikos's unfinished business, which was most likely eventually completed by Ptolemy II. Strabo had seen the canal used for navigation. However, the slope between the beginning of the canal near Basta and the Red Sea is too small, and the canal is navigable for only a few months in the middle of the year. Later, the canal was used for trade until the reign of the Antony dynasty, when it was abandoned due to siltation. Since then, the Umar caliph has ordered the dredging of the canal. But in the end, the Caliph of Al-Mansall, in order to prevent the delivery of supplies to the rising Muhammad bin Abdallah, finally ordered the canal to be filled between 761 and 762. During his expedition to Egypt, the French general Bonaparte saw the site of the water conservancy project in the desert of Suez. And a few hours before returning to Hadigaloz, they were in the same place where Moses had camped 3300 years ago, when they were hit by the tide and almost completely annihilated.
P318：
In 1861, on the island of Tenerife, the frigate Alexton spotted a huge octopus swimming in the surrounding waters. Captain Bugai directed the frigate to approach the octopus and ordered it to be attacked with a harpoon and gun, but to little effect. For the bullets and harpoons pass through its soft flesh like jelly without hardness. After many unsuccessful attempts, the crew finally managed to tie a loose knot around the octopus. The knot slid to the octopus's tail fin and stopped. The crew wanted to collect the ropes and drag the octopus onto the frigate. However, the behemoth was so heavy that the rope only pulled its tail up. The octopus dropped its tail, fell into the water and disappeared.
P338：
The battleship, the Maasai, armed with 74 guns, entered service in 1762. On 13 August 1778, the Marseille was commanded by Powap Wiltfari, who bravely engaged the ship Preston in a battle. On 4 July 1779, it joined a fleet led by Vice Admiral Destin in the campaign to capture Grenada. On 5 September 1781, it took part in a naval battle initiated by the Earl of Grasse in the Gulf of Chesapeake. In 1794, the French Republic gave it the name of the ship, Vengeance. On 16 April 1794, it joined the Fleet of Villare-Jouavaets in Brest, responsible for escorting a fleet of ships transporting wheat from the Americas, led by Vice Admiral von Stabelle. On the 11th and 12th day of the second year of the Republic, this convoy encountered the British fleet. On June 1, 1794, at 47 degrees 24 minutes north latitude and 17 degrees 28 minutes west longitude, the battleship broke three masts after a heroic counterattack, and the sea rushed into the cabin; A third of the sailors were incapacitated, unwilling to surrender, preferring to jump into the sea with 356 seafarers to martyrdom. So they nailed the flag of nationality to the stern, and the battleship disappeared into the vast sea in the cry of "Long live the Republic"!
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P64：
The cloth of the clothes you are wearing now is woven from the silk of the feet of certain shellfish, dyed in ancient red, and embellished with the purple I extracted from the hair of the Mediterranean sea hare; The perfume you see on your cabin dresser is a product made from distilled extracts of sea cucumber plants; The mattress you sleep on is the softest macrophyllum in the ocean; The pen you use to write is the tentacles of a whale, and the ink is the bodily fluids secreted by cuttlefish or gun squid.
P351：
At high tide, the waters that crowd between the Fromo Islands and the Lofoten Islands accelerate sharply and form turbulent whirlpools. Once the ship is caught up in it, don't try to get out. The terrifying waves poured in from all directions, forming a large whirlpool, aptly called the "first whirlpool of the Atlantic", with an attractive diameter of up to 15 nautical miles. Not only boats, but even whales and even polar bears have been swept into the whirlpool.
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