They resurface to find everyone gone and the trimaran destroyed. Since Helen cannot breathe underwater, the Mariner uses his gills to breathe for both of them. When they surface, the Mariner and Helen are captured by the Smokers and used to flush Enola from hiding. Helen realizes that former human civilization had indeed existed on land that is now under the sea. The Mariner puts her in a diving bell and swims her down to the ruins of a city known as Denver where he collects dirt and scrap from the bottom of the sea. Helen, convinced that Dryland exists and that people had not always lived on water, demands to know where the Mariner finds his dirt. Once out on the open sea, the trio encounter the Smokers again, but Helen's naïve actions result in damage to the Mariner's boat, and he angrily cuts her hair. As the Smokers enter the atoll, Helen rescues the Mariner from drowning in the sludge, and he agrees to help them escape on his trimaran. However, during the attack Gregor accidentally launches the gas balloon they planned to escape in with only himself on board, leaving the pair stuck. The leader of the Smokers is the Deacon, who wants the map so he can be the first to claim and get to Dryland and build a city upon it with his crew.Įnola and her guardian, Helen, had planned to leave the atoll with Gregor, an inventor and scientist. The Smokers are searching for an orphan girl named Enola, who has a map to Dryland tattooed on her back. As they begin lowering the Mariner into the sludge, evil, barbarian pirates known as Smokers raid the atoll. When the Mariner is revealed to be a mutant with webbed feet and gills who is able to breathe underwater, the scared atollers vote to drown him in a brine pool they maintain for composting. John Dunbar in Dances with Wolves.ĥ00 years after the apocalypse, a drifter, known only as "the Mariner", arrives at an atoll seeking to trade dirt, which is a precious thing because of its usefulness as a medium for growing plants. He was played by Kevin Costner, who also played Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, and Lt. The Mariner is the hero of the 1995 Science Fiction/Action Adventure, Waterworld. Because I've sailed farther than most have dreamed, and I've never seen it.
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