无尽汪洋 03 - 英语听力

In the 19th century

Oil from the whales' massive heads

Could make great fortunes

Whalemen targeted the calves first

Knowing the rest of the pod

Would soon come to their aid

And into the range of the harpoons

But for one ship

The whales got their revenge

Without warning

A huge bull rammed the hull of the 87-foot Essex

Within days

The broken ship was lost to the deep

With their ship gone

The 21 survivors squeezed into three whaleboats

Which now became their lifeboats

The men salvaged what they could

But they were woefully ill-equipped

For the trials that lay ahead

The survivors of the Essex were in virtually unexplored waters

2000 miles west of South America on the equator

Almost as far from land as it's possible to be

They were about to find out

Just how challenging survival in the south pacific can be