What a wonderful presentation! This land lubber Midwesterner decided in the, ahem, “mature” part of life to finally read Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I did a search for life on a whaling ship in the 1800s and this was the first thing that popped up. This is so helpful in my understanding and enjoyment of this amazing book.

It sounds like a miracle that this young lad Samuel Christian was rescued in time North of New Zealand. I am very impressed to hear that these sailors could sail to such distant seas. 🔔

This presentation was a delight. Thank you so much.

Amsterdam, Fantastic piece of work 😊

So glad you guys recorded this. It was a great presentation.

This is a great short presentation to accompany Moby Dick. Thanks.

I must say this was an informative video. To hear her mention POC, African Americans, also involved in the whale capturing industry opened my perspective to the entire whaling prospect. I was sure any POC were probably in chains being slaves, or having the hohumdrum- little involvement, background character, but this story telling included POC which I must applaud the story teller for doing so. Gratitude.

Great video! Hope to see more on your significant scrimshaw collection. Greetings from Germany

Excellent presentation, madam. I was actually into rereading Moby DIck and this helped me a lot better imagining the process of whaling and boiling them for their oil. Cheers!

Thank you so much! This was so informative.

Great info, I knew almost all in it but it added some facts I didn't know.

Thank you for posting very informative !

Nothing will ever erase this terrible crime against wild life...

Enjoyed very much.

So interesting! Thanks for uploading!

love this

THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL VIDEO.

The body fat is a triglyceride like body fat of any other animal. But the spermaceti is cetylpalmitate. It is not a fat at all but a wax.

I'd like to get the full mud movie about hunting whales from oar's boats, which is the source?

It's pretty shocking that some of the sailors didn't know how to swim. @11:28

Interesting video!! They should’ve eaten the whale meat as that was a excellent preventative in getting hypothermia. This spermaceti they say doesn’t freeze so they should’ve ingested it raw. Did sperm whales go up in Canada to where the Inuits could eat it.? I thought in Indonesia that tribe ate it raw but the climate was warm compared to the north. I’m wanting to eat the whale meat raw because both sea mammals and oily fish like salmon,mackerel,herring,sardines,anchovies allow you to withstand the cold way better. I’m doing my own observations and experiments with cold water immersion. Yeah Greenland sells whale too.

Seems to me like this lady just stole info and footage from the Nantucket whaling Museum. And still cut out most of the details.

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Thanks for telling us about an island we never heard about. Nantucket. 🐳