The ballet is interrupted by Yves, whose inexperience with submarines leads him to run his craft aground on a rock.

Yves leaves the wrecked submarine and chases after the departing naiads, but is attacked by huge fish and crabs.

However, in vengeance for all the fish Yves has caught in his career, goddesses of the sea trap the fisherman in a net and let him fall into a gigantic hollow sponge, from which he struggles to escape.

[8] Méliès's design for the film includes cut-out sea animals patterned after Alphonse de Neuville's illustrations for Verne's novel.

[4] It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 912–924 in its catalogues,[1] where it was advertised as a grande féerie fantaisiste en 30 tableaux.