It uses the mythological characters of Proteus (Πρωτεύς) and Nereus and includes curious characters such as the witty Caranguejo (Portuguese for crab).
Proteo, Anteo, and Pietro Cavezzale are specialised in supporting Diver operations and in particular rescue of or from submarines in distress.
The name of the plant family Proteaceae as well as the genus Protea, both to which P. cynaroides belongs to, derive from the name of the Greek god Proteus, a deity that was able to change between many forms.
Because of the great diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after Proteus, a Greek god of the sea capable of assuming many different shapes; it is not named after the genus Proteus.
The term Proteus signifies changeability of form, as personified in the Homeric poems in Proteus, "the old man of the sea," who tends the sealflocks of Poseidon and has the gift of endless transformation.
Having absorbed virtually all of the Western poetic tradition (from Dante and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Charles Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Whitman and Ezra Pound) and all the Croatian greats, including (Marko Marulić and Ivan Gundulić), Ujević created a protean poetic oeuvre of inimitable flavor and inescapable grandeur.
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Pyle and Zealley also composed the scores to several films by John Greyson (including Proteus, The Law of Enclosures and the short films This is Nothing and Herr), Sarah Polley (I Shout Love) and Wrik Mead (Fruit Machine, Hoolboom, Camp).
Years later, Harper created the submarine, Proteus, for the film, Fantastic Voyage, and art directed the highly acclaimed Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
In 1883, new rescue attempts of the Proteus, commanded by Lt. Ernest Garlington and the Yantic, commanded by Cdr.
In the late 1850s, however, it split due to major disagreements following annual prizes being awarded to the then controversial Pre-Raphaelite painters, particularly to William Holman Hunt in 1852 for Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus and to Millais in 1857 for The Blind Girl.
In 2013, Sellars' case was again profiled on British television in a special called Shrinking My 17 Stone Legs, in which it was determined that Sellars' condition was not, in fact, Proteus syndrome, but rather a PIK3CA gene mutation.
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The most famous person with Proteus syndrome may be Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man".
A small Airborne Real-Time Imaging System (ARTIS) camera, developed by HyperSpectral Sciences, Inc., under ERAST project, was flight demonstrated during the summer of 1999 on board the Scaled Composites Proteus aircraft when it took visual and near-infrared photos from Proteus while it was flying high over the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture 99 Airshow at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
The 1979 Night Trains novel by Barbara Wood and Gareth Wootton is a fictionalized account of the Proteus story, with names of characters, locations, etc. altered.
Scaled, in partnership with Northrop Grumman, is offering a fully unmanned version of the Proteus, labeled Model 395, as part of the competition for the USAF Hunter-Killer competition.
As of 2012, she was a student of marine engineering at Delft University of Technology and she was a member of the Proteus-Eretes rowing club in Delft.