Whaling Questions

Watch Chapters 9, 10, and 11 of Into the Deep.

Here are the questions that go with those sections

25. In less than 40 years, the U.S. population tripled to over _______ million.

26. What was the demand that fueled the whaling industry?

27. What city surpassed Nantucket as the whaling capital of the United States?

28. In 1846, ___________ million was invested in the whaling industry employing

over ______ thousand people directly and indirectly.

29. In 1853, ______ thousand whales were killed, earning $______ million.

30. Whalers are credited with discovering ______ islands.

31. How did owners respond to the rising cost of whaling expeditions? How is the treatment if the crew of whaling vessels different during the Golden Age of Whaling?

32. From his experiences on board whaling vessels, Herman Melville believed in

33. Melville wandered the Pacific Ocean for ________ years.

34. Who did Herman Melville meet in 1841?

35. After rigging the the whaleboats in preparing for their journey, Captain Pollard and his crew estimated that with their salvaged supplies, how long could they survive at sea?

36. ___________ miles away were the Marquesas Islands, South America was _______ miles away.

37. Pollard wanted his crew to head ____________, but the other officers of the Essex

wanted the survivors to go towards ______________.

38. Dying of thirst, the men soon spotted ___________ Island. It was here that _____ members of the crew, decide to remain behind.

39. ______ men on three boats resumed their journey.

40. How many days was Thomas Nickerson lost at sea?

41. How many survivors were picked up from the two whale boats?

42. How many survivors were picked up from the island?