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| [00:00.66] | In the 19th century, |
| [00:02.04] | oil from the whales' massive heads |
| [00:04.37] | could make great fortunes. |
| [00:06.27] | Whalemen targeted the calves first, |
| [00:08.55] | knowing the rest of the pod |
| [00:09.53] | would soon come to their aid |
| [00:11.53] | and into the range of the harpoons. |
| [00:14.20] | But for one ship, |
| [00:15.37] | the whales got their revenge. |
| [00:17.58] | Without warning, |
| [00:19.11] | a huge bull rammed the hull of the 87-foot Essex. |
| [00:22.21] | Within days, |
| [00:23.52] | the broken ship was lost to the deep. |
| [00:27.11] | With their ship gone, |
| [00:28.68] | the 21 survivors squeezed into three whaleboats, 21 |
| [00:32.07] | which now became their lifeboats. |
| [00:34.00] | The men salvaged what they could, |
| [00:36.25] | but they were woefully ill-equipped |
| [00:38.09] | for the trials that lay ahead. |
| [00:40.06] | The survivors of the Essex were in virtually unexplored waters, EsseX |
| [00:45.09] | 2,000 miles west of South America on the equator, |
| [00:49.22] | almost as far from land as it's possible to be. |
| [00:52.22] | They were about to find out just how challenging survival in the South Pacific can be. |
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