Moby's Dick Found!

[JackLuis]

Whaling shipwreck linked to "Moby-Dick" discovered

French Frigate Shoals caught another!

HONOLULU (Reuters) - Marine archeologists off Hawaii have found the sunken remains of a 19th-century whaling vessel skippered by a captain whose ordeal from an earlier shipwreck inspired the Herman Melville classic "Moby-Dick."

Iron and ceramic scraps from the Nantucket whaling ship Two Brothers were located in shallow waters nearly 600 miles from Honolulu in the remote chain of islands and atolls that make up the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

French Frigate Shoals caught another!

Well sort of. Actually "Captain Ahab" was rescued a second time and retired to a quiet life ashore. I guess getting sunk twice in your life is enough.

 

[TE999]

I'm sure he'll be pleased to hear that...the twins were lonely.

 

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[voluptuary_manque]

Indeed.

And he was a humble individual, too. Not exactly Ahab style.

Thank goodness for fiction!

Having to eat his cousin after the first sinking must have been traumatic. That he had the courage to return to the sea shows remarkable fortitude. The strong silent type?

 

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[TE999]

Having to eat his cousin after the first sinking must have been traumatic. That he had the courage to return to the sea shows remarkable fortitude. The strong silent type?

What's a little incest to a sea captain?


(I'm going to make a joke out of post this yet)

 

[Stella_Omega]

My grandfather, commercial fisherman and true Old Man of the Sea, was strong but not silent.

Then again, he wasn't chasing whales.

I did learn many unusual obscenities from him, however.

In honor of your Grandfather;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0PmEXlPvZM

 

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