Answer: B) Jules Verne.
Step-by-step explanation: from the given options, the author that wrote a story that revolved around a captain's underwater adventures with his crew in a submarine long before the submarine was actually invented was Jules Verne, a french writer who wrote "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" a novel about the adventures of Captain Nemo and his crew, while they traveled 20,000 leagues across the sea, the novel was published in 1870.