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Real Men, Real Sailors, "The Essex" movie Trailor
Wikipedia has a nice write up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)
That includes meIn this day and age you might find a lot of people cheering for the whale.
According to wikipedia, the actual whale that sunk Essex lived- see the wikipedia attachmnet in the OP. The whale rammed the boat and the boat sunk- the whale was never seen again (I hope it lived). Yea the whale was the hero, protecting his women.Looks interesting. Ron Howard has done a lot of very good films. In this day and age you might find a lot of people cheering for the whale.
Howard ? Maybe he has but I can't think of any Bruce. Then again perhaps any memory of his good stuff is obliterated by memories of the da Vinci Code.Looks interesting. Ron Howard has done a lot of very good films. In this day and age you might find a lot of people cheering for the whale.
Hey thanks, I got netflix so see if I can find it. Any idea if it is a documentary or movie. Sometimes hard to locate stuff on Netflix, looked the other day for shows of interest and did no see anything on Nantucket whaling. Imagine going out on a ship like the Essex where the plan was to be gone for 2.5 years. No communication and great possibility you will never come back due to the dangers involved in such a trip.There is a great documentary on Netflix about the history of Nantucket whaling (I'm too lazy to go look it up) which includes the story of the Essex. It's one hell of a story. It's a good thing we found substitutes for burning whale oil or we would have wiped them off the face of the earth completely. Can you imagine? What a shame that would have been.
Oh here you go. It was PBS....Hey thanks, I got netflix so see if I can find it. Any idea if it is a documentary or movie. Sometimes hard to locate stuff on Netflix, looked the other day for shows of interest and did no see anything on Nantucket whaling. Imagine going out on a ship like the Essex where the plan was to be gone for 2.5 years. No communication and great possibility you will never come back due to the dangers involved in such a trip.
Yea gotta watch them whales- dodge them all the time in the winter on North Shore of Oahu, even the surfers need to watch out. Did have an interesting experience transiting the Cook Straight on a 81 foot motor sail. It was middle of night and nerly perfect calm air and sea. We had the feeling of a presence in the water and then the boat rocked side to side. It was not a collision, but a large pressure wave created by somthing swimming next to us, whatever it was it was big, maybe even a blue whale, I wish it had been daylight so we could see what it was.
Yes, they comment angrily about whalers at the trailer site. They want people always to live freezing in the dark.In this day and age you might find a lot of people cheering for the whale.