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* While the televised version implies the [[Sea Devil]]s are hibernating in a bunker beneath the ocean floor, the novelisation describes them as sleeping in the lower depths of the [[Silurian]] craft itself. Their length of inactivity is stretched from hundreds of years to thousands. | * While the televised version implies the [[Sea Devil]]s are hibernating in a bunker beneath the ocean floor, the novelisation describes them as sleeping in the lower depths of the [[Silurian]] craft itself. Their length of inactivity is stretched from hundreds of years to thousands. | ||
* Terrance Dicks paints Doctor [[Solow]] in a sympathetic light, persuaded by [[Nilson]] that the East Bloc had the solution to banish suffering and injustice from the world. She was grieving the failure of her career, and deaths of her parents and husband when Nilson recruited her to as an ideological convert. Conversely, Nilson is described as "a complete fanatic", if anything more ruthless than the people he serves. | * Terrance Dicks paints Doctor [[Solow]] in a sympathetic light, persuaded by [[Nilson]] that the East Bloc had the solution to banish suffering and injustice from the world. She was grieving the failure of her career, and deaths of her parents and husband when Nilson recruited her to as an ideological convert. Conversely, Nilson is described as "a complete fanatic", if anything more ruthless than the people he serves. | ||
* The [[Myrka]] is described as a kind of "sea dragon", specially bred and adapted by the Silurians with cybernetic technology. It electrocutes its victims as with the televised story, but attacks with | * The [[Myrka]] is described as a kind of "sea dragon", specially bred and adapted by the Silurians with cybernetic technology. It electrocutes its victims as with the televised story, but attacks with a lash-like tail that can send people hurtling across the room with its kinetic power alone. To the Doctor's knowledge, the creature is "almost invincible". | ||
* The novelisation clarifies that [[Tegan]]'s foot is undamaged while trapped under the toppled airlock door "by a kind of freak accident". | * The novelisation clarifies that [[Tegan]]'s foot is undamaged while trapped under the toppled airlock door "by a kind of freak accident". | ||
* When Nilson takes Tegan hostage, the Doctor follows them to the [[ultraviolet converter]] carrying the dead Karina's blaster for protection. He's forced to discard it when Nilson calls his bluff and threatens Tegan with his own weapon. | * When Nilson takes Tegan hostage, the Doctor follows them to the [[ultraviolet converter]] carrying the dead Karina's blaster for protection. He's forced to discard it when Nilson calls his bluff and threatens Tegan with his own weapon. | ||
* [[Icthar]]'s belief to having twice offered the hand of friendship (possibly explained in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] novel ''[[The Scales of Injustice]]'') is rewritten as the Doctor having twice tried in vain to make peace. | * [[Icthar]]'s belief to having twice offered the hand of friendship (possibly explained in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] novel ''[[The Scales of Injustice]]'') is rewritten as the Doctor having twice tried in vain to make peace. | ||
* Terrance Dicks retains an attempted rescue of the Doctor by [[Turlough]] and [[Preston (Warriors of the Deep)|Preston]], cut from the televised version to emphasise Turlough's cowardice and selfishness. | * Terrance Dicks retains an attempted rescue of the Doctor by [[Turlough]] and [[Preston (Warriors of the Deep)|Preston]], cut from the televised version to emphasise Turlough's cowardice and selfishness. | ||
* The confrontation in the chemical stores plays out a bit differently compared to the televised version. Rather than [[Bulic]] attacking Sauvix with the [[hexachromite gas|Hexachromite gas]] in retribution, Preston shoots one of the cylinders with her blaster-rifle as she dies. | * The confrontation in the chemical stores between the Doctor's party and [[Sauvix]] plays out a bit differently compared to the televised version. Rather than [[Bulic]] attacking Sauvix with the [[hexachromite gas|Hexachromite gas]] in retribution, Preston shoots one of the cylinders with her blaster-rifle as she dies. | ||
* While the novelisation ends on a similarly bitter note, the Doctor recognises that there will be other survivors hiding throughout Sea Base 4. Bulic will have to assume command of the base while the TARDIS is repaired and explain to their rescuers what transpired. | * While the novelisation ends on a similarly bitter note, the Doctor recognises that there will be other survivors hiding throughout Sea Base 4. Bulic will have to assume command of the base while the TARDIS is repaired and explain to their rescuers what transpired. | ||
