Episode 521: The Tragedy of the Essex Part II - A Belly Full of Blood
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The End of the Nantucket Whale Industry
The last Nantucket whale ship was tied to a dock in 1924. And the next night, it was appropriately destroyed by a hurricane that dashed it against the rocks and the American whaling industry was ended forever. While there were two million whales when whaling began, there's only about 350,000 sperm whales alive today. "I feel like this is a playground for my ideas," he says.
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