| [00:00.35] | Three weeks on, |
| [00:01.19] | the shipwreck survivors |
| [00:02.25] | were in the heart of the Desolate Region, |
| [00:04.96] | and in deep despair. |
| [00:07.22] | In the boat's log, |
| [00:08.01] | one of the survivors wrote, |
| [00:09.10] | "The violence of raving thirst |
| [00:11.51] | has no parallel in the catalogue of human calamities." |
| [00:15.64] | They had almost run out of rations, |
| [00:18.06] | and despite being experienced sailors, |
| [00:20.54] | failed to catch a single fish. |
| [00:23.48] | But there are pockets of richness in the South Pacific. |
| [00:26.91] | One was well known to the crew of the Essex |
| [00:29.25] | and would have been in their reach, |
| [00:30.97] | but for the prevailing winds. |
| [00:32.63] | Lying over 700 miles off the coast of South America |
| [00:35.63] | are the Galapagos Islands. |
| [00:38.45] | Unlike the open ocean, |
| [00:39.98] | the seas surrounding these 100 or so islands are bursting with life, |
| [00:43.88] | with many creatures you wouldn't expect to find in tropical seas, |
| [00:48.41] | like these sea lions. |
| [00:50.42] | Despite sitting on the equator, |
| [00:52.06] | the waters around the Galapagos are cooled |
| [00:54.61] | by currents flowing all the way from Antarctica. |
| [00:57.81] | It is this that allows the Galapagos to be home |
| [01:00.77] | to the world's only tropical penguin. |
| [01:04.22] | Tropical fish live here, too. |
| [01:06.95] | Thanks to the nutrients carried by the cool current, |
| [01:09.98] | there is an abundance of life. |
| [01:11.85] |
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