Not realizing that the dolphin is a mammal and must breathe air, for a while Jake struggles with it, since it wants to surface but Jake won't let him. Finally, Jake realizes the dolphin needs to breathe; it rushes to the surface, jumps over the water, fills up its lungs and quickly dives under at magnificent speed. Jake drives him through the most beautiful and amazing reefs, they seem to be luminous; everything is colossal, crab fish, octopus, turtle like creatures, enormous banks of migrating glowing fish. Jake has lived on Pandora for over 6 years now and this day feels like the day he arrived as he explores a whole new Pandoran world under the ocean.
Jake and his dolphin arrive at a beautiful setting, a cave full of jelly like creatures that seem to be nesting their eggs in large numbers; the eggs are in all sorts of exotic colors plus they glow, it seems they emit energy charges between them. The dolphin though seems nervous, Jake tries to hold it still but it is somewhat aggressive, Jake realizes the dolphin may be sensing danger lurking ahead; after all, as it's no surprise, this beautiful ocean could not possibly be short of predators.
Soon enough, Jake spots an angry mob of vicious Pandoran sharks in pursuit. Big, ferocious and hungry they make a run for Jake and his dolphin. They take aim with ferocious speed, they are very big in size, at least three of them, they zigzag along Jake and his dolphin waiting for that one wrong move. The dolphin needs to catch some air, it rushes to the surface again, jumps over, dives back, the sharks are still in pursuit, by now they have covered a very long distance, the ocean is getting deeper, colder, darker.
The angry sharks soon realize they are entering uncharted waters, as Jake's dolphin reaches the surface for one more breath of air, the last remaining shark simply gives up; the dolphin by now has gathered enough energy to out swim them. Jake is now in a deep vast ocean, he's sort of lost his sense of direction, he notices the dolphin continues to swim straight and stubborn and somewhat disobedient to Jake's orders, perhaps it still tries to outrun sharks, the dolphin is now driving Jake somewhere.
In the distance beyond the now dark ocean, Jake begins to see a series of underwater lights; he cannot yet define them clearly. As he gets closer he realizes is an underwater station which sits just underneath the surface of the ocean, he can see tunnels with wide thick windows, inside he can see earth humans -Sky People- walking along its hallways, they are mostly dressed in white outfits, some look like scientist, others look like technicians, some of them carry weapons, as if they were security. He continues to navigate around the station, he encounters a very large white round tank, half of it is under water, he looks below it and sees that is connected to a very deep water well, it stretches beyond his eye can see. Jake can clearly see some of the print on the tank, it reads:"Reservoir de hydrogene-non-fumeurs", and a "No-smoking logo", obviously Jake figured out what it was, regardless of his lack of French.
He keeps navigating through the station, he continues to see multitudes of people within the aquatic hallways with large windows, he sees a series of platforms that surface above the water, and a tower he can barely define from underneath the ocean surf. The station above water almost looks like a gigantic oil rig, there are boats docked into portions of it, from a distance they look primitive. Jake from underwater can hear loudspeaker sounds above; he cannot define what they are saying though. He encounters an area where there is a torpedo like vessel docked with the station, it has no windows, it is magnificently large, its tail end disappearing into the dark ocean haze, he can see through its series of docks people moving in and out from it, he approaches one of its very large lateral fins and a rudder, he sees what appears to be the name of the vessel, it reads "EUROPA ODDISSEY" followed by some roman numeral.
As he swims around the vessel he arrives at an underwater fence made of a very dense perforated metal. Behind it are all kinds of ocean creatures, they are trapped in the containment area. A small dolphin creature approaches from behind the fence and attempts to reach out with Jake's dolphin. Soon Jake realizes that it is the dolphin's offspring, trapped. The baby dolphin cries for its mother, the mother dolphin is helpless, Jake can suddenly feel her sadness.
In the distance looking into one of the underwater hallways Jake sees a tall figure, it's one of the "Txampay Na'vi Teyr ", he is wearing a mask like that of Jake and he is armed, he is talking to one of the Sky People. By now Jake has seen enough, he figures all or most of his questions have been answered, he now wonders if the dolphin could take him back to the shore lines of the Ikran People's village, where
Neytiri awaits, he thinks is worth a shot.
Jake now races away from the station, occasionally allowing the dolphin to surface for air when suddenly, this gigantic white sphere appears in front of him under the sea; it's coming straight towards him, it must be at least a few hundred feet in diameter while it completely overtakes the underwater current. Jake barely has time to steer off of it before realizing that the sphere is actually a giant torpedo like sub, like the one docked at the station, identical. He and his dolphin are shaken violently by the vessels motion as he barely avoids being run over by it, he is now side to side with it, the vessel is as long as it is wide. It just seems to stretch out forever. Jake wonders where could the sub be coming from, from another station perhaps somewhere in Pandora?.
A smaller light approaches in front of Jake, he steers to the side. At first it seems the lights where from the large vessel itself, Jake soon realizes they are instead from a smaller ship navigating beside it as if escorting it; it's small, it looks like it could carry only small cargo and a small number of people, it has wings like a plane and many gadgets extruding from it; robotic arms, injectors, lights, a sort of mini research submarine but with wings and propellers. He could see pilots driving it through its thick double glazed windshield, on top and below it has a boxed rounded cage where a diver with an extra thick suit -almost like an astronaut- sits while it Navigates.
Jake is not sure if the people in the vessel spotted him, he finally sees the end of the large torpedo vessel pass by with its enormous fins, there is darkness and silence in the depth of the sea once again. Suddenly the small escorting sub has returned, it suddenly appears in front of Jake and out of nowhere, it must have spotted him. The "mini-sub" now sits with its shiny lights pointing straight at him, suddenly the lights shut off, there's darkness and near silence, but the vessel sits still; it then quickly shoots a straight beam of red laser light up and down, the laser starts turning into a cone shape from above and from below until both cones meet at a horizontal line at 360 degrees, it is some sort of three-dimensional laser scan; Jake sees the laser cut right trough his eye pupil, the dolphin gets scare, they flee. The vessel does not follow.
It is a few minutes into his journey back, Jake begins to feel relieved that he was able to get away; the dolphin appears to be leading Jake back towards the island and swimming at great speed. Jake realizes he must go back to the island since it is a point of reference to return to the shore of the main land. As he nears the island, he notices creatures following him. The dolphin accelerates, Jake looks besides him, a White Man -Txampay…- is swimming next to him underwater and very fast on his penguin like amphibian bird. Suddenly there are three, four, five of them tagging along, they are very good at holding their breath under water, they are not wearing masks. They swim with their eyes wide open as they stare at Jake straight in the face, like angry hunters.
The dolphin needs to breathe, as he jumps over the water surface, the White Men surface simultaneously. Jake suddenly realizes it's going to be very hard to out swim them. He tries to zigzag them, it's no use, just when the dolphin makes one more jump Jake realizes just above the water that he is almost back at the island, the reef gets shallower, the next jump meets Jake straight on with a very thick fishing net, he and the dolphin are now trapped, Jake has been captured.
