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Hello, this is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English, I'm Neil.
And I'm Rob.
From the ancient Roman sea god Neptune to myths of mermaids,
to modern Hollywood films like Finding Nemo.
People throughout history have been fascinated by the idea of living underwater.
In this program we'll be hearing about projects to create livable underwater habitats and the challenges they face.
We'll be finding out how realistic it is to believe that in a few years we could be eating breakfast whilst watching fish swim outside the kitchen window
before heading off to work in an office under the ocean.
And we'll be learning some related vocabulary as well.
But first it's time for our quiz question.
One of the first adventure stories to fire the public's imagination about the underwater world was the 1870 novel,
20,000 leagues under the sea.
But who wrote this underwater classic?
Was it A, H.
G.
Wells?
B, Arthur Conan Doyle, or C.
Jules Verne?