Finally, with the survivors on the verge of death, the latter's boat reaches Chile's Alejandro Selkirk Island. Following this encounter, the whale swims away peacefully, and is never seen again.Ī passing ship rescues Pollard's boat, but Chase's boat continues to drift with no food or water. After a moment of thought, Chase lowers his harpoon, deciding not to kill the creature.
Chase hesitates, and stares into the whale's left eye, as the whale stares back at Chase. The whale breaches for a moment, allowing Chase to observe a portion of his previously thrown harpoon still embedded above the whale's eye. The white whale suddenly returns, and Chase gets into position for a final attack. The other two further resort to cannibalism to survive, with Pollard's cousin Henry Coffin sacrificing himself. Back in the 1820s, the three boats are separated by the currents and one is lost. The older Nickerson is overcome with remorse for his cannibalism and stops his story, thinking his wife could not love him if she knew about it however, when his wife comforts him, assuring him that she still loves him, he feels encouraged enough to finish. Soon after, one of the men dies, and the remaining crew reluctantly decide to cannibalise him. Just four men decide to stay, while the rest set sail again on the boats, with the hope of drifting along the trade winds and finding better lands. While gathering food, Chase discovers the long dead corpses of earlier castaways, after which the crew fears that they might die waiting on the island before another ship passes by. The whale follows and attacks again, but they escape to the tiny Henderson Island, George Pollard presumes it could be Ducie Island, and admits there is no way to be certain without instruments. With the hull stove in and pumps not working, the crew abandons the sinking Essex in the three intact whaling boats, and must sail hundreds of miles to shore with very limited supplies.
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They find the undisturbed grounds, but when they launch the whaling boats, a massive bull sperm whale, its skin whitened by scars, attacks damaging the boats and turning on the ship.Ĭhase harpoons it from the Essex 's deck, but the whale rams the ship's hull, killing two men. Dismissing the story as a myth, Pollard and Chase lead the expedition west. In Atacames, Ecuador, the officers meet a Spanish captain who tells them his crew found the bountiful "Offshore Grounds" 2,000 miles to the west, but claims that a vengeful "white whale" destroyed his ship, killing six of his men. The Essex sails past Cape Horn to the Pacific, hoping for better luck in catching one. Three months pass with no further successes, and Pollard realizes that the Atlantic Ocean holds no sighting of whales. The two agree to put their differences aside, rather than risking their reputations by returning to port without profit, and soon, the crew kills their first bull sperm whale. Chase and Pollard clash, leading Pollard to sail into a storm against Chase's advice. The captain is George Pollard, an inexperienced mariner from an established whaling family who envies Chase's skill and popularity. The owners hire veteran whaler Owen Chase as first mate, though he is disappointed not to receive a captain's commission. The story turns to 1820: a whaling company in Nantucket has refitted the Essex to participate in a whale hunt and get back some lucrative whale oil, and 14-year-old Nickerson signs on as a cabin boy. Nickerson initially refuses, but then finally agrees when his wife intervenes. In 1850, author Herman Melville visits innkeeper Thomas Nickerson, the last survivor of the sinking of the whaleship Essex, offering money in return for his story.
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