The Deep

The Nektons try to stop fuel from polluting a marine sanctuary.

Ant thinks the Baltic Sea anomaly is really a UFO; the Nektons find something frightening.

Something mermaid-shaped is swimming outside the Aronnax.

The Nektons enter a part of the Bermuda Triangle where the law of physics do not seem to apply. They have difficulty escaping.

A giant, upright-standing creature, straight out of a monster movie, is walking across the ocean floor, causing havoc. Kaiko knows this isn’t a normal sea-creature. How can something like this exist? Ant is hugely excited. A big fan of Japanese “Kaiju” (monster) movies, this is his fantasy come to life! They try to halt the monster’s destructive progress, but it seems to be super-strong! The Nektons wonder why it’s heading towards the island of the their old friend Kenji Nakimura. It transpires that Kenji built this robotic monster as a prop when he worked in the movie business, years ago. But somehow it’s been activated again and is on a collision course with the giant hermit crabs that inhabit the waters off Kenji’s island. As much as Ant loves a good “battle of the monsters” on screen, he doesn’t want to witness one in real life. Kenji tries to help them, but he’s conflicted—he doesn’t want his greatest creation damaged! But when the monster finally reaches the cave of the giant mutated hermit crabs, the crabs emerge to defend their territory. A battle of epic proportions looms! Ant tries to wrap the creature in a strong steel cable, but the cable isn’t strong enough. Finally Kenji remembers he used parts from the monster’s original remote-control to build a new device. This must have been the trigger for its new awakening! They finally manage to deactivate the huge “Kaiju” and peace is restored. Kenji’s Island now has a very large, inert monster statue on it to keep Kenji company.

Dark Orca pirate-boy Smiling Finn steals a treasure map from his father and comes to the Nektons pleading for help. He wants them to stop his father, Captain Hammerhead, from stealing a particular treasure! Ant finds this very puzzling—why would a pirate not want to steal a treasure? Despite their reservations, the Nektons help out and save the treasure from the pirates. But in the process, Will gets very sick and collapses. The Nektons have no idea what’s wrong with him and it’s getting much worse by the minute. It seems Finn hasn’t told the Nektons the entire truth. He finally admits that the treasure is cursed! He was trying to protect his father from this and now it seems Will has succumbed to it. But are curses for real? Fontaine doesn’t think so. The Nektons have to find the truth about this treasure before Will becomes its latest victim! Returning to the area where they found it, they search for clues. The treasure ship was wrecked on a coral reef—is that significant? But Finn’s father and his crew arrive, determined to disown his “traitor son” and retrieve “his” treasure! In the ensuing battle, the pirates are driven back, but Will is still desperately ill. Finn, Ant and Fontaine finally deduce that a toxin produced by the coral around the treasure is responsible for Will’s sickness. Kaiko is able to produce an antidote, and Will is finally saved. Finn eventually returns to his family and is accepted by them only when he convinces them it was all a plot to poison the Nektons. Hammerhead is now proud of his son, thinking he’s very creative.