
Episode 520: The Tragedy of the Essex Part I - Thar She Blows!
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The Whale's Last Resort - A New Hat
The Essex's crew turned from hunters to butchers and eventually factory workers. Pieces of blubber were cut from the whale and lowered into the blubber room below decks where it would eventually be processed into oil. The sperm whale's head, which constituted a third of the sperm whales total length,. It was cut off and hauled up to the ship's deck pouring out blood and gore.
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