The South Pacific is a vast ocean wilderness

Its waters are teeming with life

From tropical coral reefs that attract the great variety to the cooler

Temperate waters that attract the great numbers

So why is it that in the midst of all this richness

The world's largest predators

Can struggle to survive in this endless blue

Nothing brings home the challenges of surviving

In the South Pacific better than the epic true story

That inspired Moby ****On 23rd February 1821

A lifeboat was found drifting in the eastern Pacific

In it lay two American whalemen

Barely alive

Their whale ship had been sunk by an enormous sperm whale

For a staggering three months

These shipwrecked mariners had sailed

Across four and a half thousand miles

Of what may be the loneliest region on Earth

For these sailors

The South Pacific had become a living hell

So what is it about this ocean that makes survival here such a challenge