

The Deacon has his crew burn the Mariner's vessel and shoot at them, but they escape by diving deeper underwater than the bullets can reach. This scares Enola out of hiding and she is captured by the Smokers. The Deacon pretends to kill the Mariner and Helen by firing a gun into the sky. The Deacon wants the Mariner and Helen to tell him where Enola is, but they will not help him find her. When the Mariner and Helen return to the surface, the Smokers capture them. While they are looking at the sunken city, the Smokers find the Mariner's vessel and take control of it. The Mariner puts her in a diving bell made out of plastic and swims down to a sunken city (actually the city of Denver) to show her. Helen learns that the Mariner knows where Dryland is and wants to see it. They free the Mariner after he says he will take them with him. This leaves Helen and Enola on the Atoll as the Smokers attack it. Gregor's escape balloon is accidentally let loose too early (with him on it). Like the Mariner, they do not fit in with the other people. Helen and Enola plan to escape with Gregor (the Atoll's astrologer/ engineer) in search of Dryland. Enola lives with her guardian, Helen, a woman in her twenties or thirties. One of their spies told them that she was there. She has a map to Dryland tattooed on her back. They are looking for a young girl named Enola. He is the "captain" of an old oil tanker, the Exxon Valdez ("the 'Deez").


They fear him and plan to "recycle" ( execute) him in the Atoll's old dump for domestic waste.Īs they get ready to "recycle" the Mariner, the Smokers attack. During the fight to capture him, they learn that he is a mutant. He does not like being around many people. The Atollers offer a trade with the Mariner: if he will stay with them long enough to get one of their women pregnant they will give him all the supplies he needs. He also appears to have very good reflexes. People call him "the Mariner." He is a genetic mutant, with webbed feet and gills.

The main character in the movie is a drifter (Kevin Costner). Slavers were mentioned by the drifter the Mariner meets early in the movie but not shown.They are called smokers because of the smoke they make by using oil-powered equipment. Smokers: Pirates who live on old oil tankers.Atoll Dwellers: People who live in large floating constructs called atolls.They collecting things and trade with one each other as well as with atolls Drifters: People who sail alone in small boats.The peoples can be classified into four groups: There is, however, a belief of many peoples that dry land exists. It is blasphemy to believe anything else. Most people believe the world was created in a flood. The humans that are still alive have forgotten the past. The Earth is almost entirely covered with water. Some time in the future, after global warming, the polar icecaps have melted.
