Saturday, December 12, 2015

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

  1.  In the Heart of the Sea is a true story told to Herman Melville around 1850 by the last survivor who was a 14 year old I believe when they sailed in 1818 and returned those that survived in 1820,  the crew of the whaling ship Essex  out of Nantucket,  which is an island off of Massachusetts. I have been there with my wife a few years ago.

    If you are interested in sailing like my wife and I are: (she started sailing before she could walk and I around 10 years of age in Southern California).

    I highly recommend this movie if you are interested in either sailing, Sailing history or just survival or how people used to hunt whales with spears and long boats in the 1800s to get whale oil. In those times there were no oil wells on land yet and so whale oil was burned as lamp oil and was $2 a gallon which was a lot of money then. For example, a days wage in a cotton mill then was 25 to 30 cents a day in the early 1800s. So, $2 a gallon for a common person was more than one weeks wages (for a 5 or a 6 day week).

    25 to 30 cents a day came from:

    1. Wage Trends, 1800-1900 - The National Bureau of...

      www.nber.org/chapters/c2486.pdf
      The Budd—King average wages are computed ... 1800—1818 For 1800—18 an estimate ... writer's "Annual Estimates of Unemployment in the United States, 1900 ...

     

  1. In the Heart of the Sea (2015) - IMDb

    www.imdb.com/title/tt1390411
    Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a giant whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.

  2. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the...

    Nathaniel Philbrick's In the Heart of the Sea is certainly cast from the same mold, ...

  3. In the Heart of the Sea (film) - Wikipedia, the...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Heart_of_the_Sea_(film)
    In the Heart of the Sea; Inferno; Low Riders; Television: Shadow Chasers; Hiller and Diller; Sports Night; Felicity; From the Earth to the Moon; Wonderland; The PJs ...

  4. In the Heart of the Sea

    www.intheheartoftheseamovie.com
    Official site for IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, based on the incredible true story that inspired ‘Moby-Dick’. intheheartofthesea ...
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