The Hunt for Whales, presented at the Nantucket Whaling Museum
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- The story of what it was like to hunt for whales in the 18th-19th centuries has been told since the 1930s when retired whaling captain George Grant became the first curator of the Nantucket Whaling Museum and shared his first-hand whaling experiences with museum visitors. That began a long-standing tradition of telling this same story passed down to each new generation of museum interpreters. Today, the "Hunt Lecture" AKA "The Hunt" is told daily in Gosnell Hall at the Nantucket Whaling Museum under the whale skeleton.
This version of "The Hunt" was created as a multi-media presentation to celebrate the opening of the new Nantucket Whaling Museum in 2005.
Presenter: Kirsten Gamble
Paintings, photographs and manuscripts: Nantucket Historical Association Collections
Additional paintings by Rodney Charman, courtesy of the Albert F. Egan, Jr. & Dorothy H. Egan Foundation, Inc.
:
Landing of the First Settler at Madaket-1659
Settlement of the Island Commenced at Madaket-1660
Whale Off Shore: Taking of the First Sperm Whale off Nantucket-1712
Great Fire of Nantucket-1846
Additional photographs:
Tarr Farm Oil Wells (1861), Courtesy of Drake Well Museum
Pannin’ for Gold!, courtesy of www.historichywy49.com
Video segments:
Sperm Whale Stock Footage courtesy of National Geographic Film Library
Right Whale Footage courtesy of Oceanstockfootage.com
Elmer Clifton’s Down to the Sea in Ships (1922)
Produced by Novation Media
H. Melville sent me here. Great presentation!
Thank you for helping me visualize Moby-Dick.
This is an excellent overview of the Whaling industry! AND Nantucket! Thank you so much!!
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This was a wonderful lecture, fascinating and very insightful, it makes me want to visit Nantucket one day.
What an horrific erra in time of discovery and exploration, the minds of our Leadership - Greatness and Courageous. Thanks for preserving the history, definitely a place to visit on my check list.
Taking off your shoes was a common practice to ensure you don’t sink as fast if you get knocked overboard.
Most people back then couldn’t swim. When wet, clothing and shoes are like led weights and they obstruct movement. Even if you know how to swim these items make it incredibly difficult to function.
Sailors also didn't want to risk losing their shoes in the ocean.
That was amazing! Your a great story teller. Thank you.
Wonderful presentation. Always wanted to visit Nantucket. Perhaps one day.
Very interesting, and she’s a great lecturer. Thank you!
Outstanding presentation! Thank you!
Stayed in Mystic seaport onboard 1 of the old ships. Was 1 of the best trips as a kid growing up getting to sleep on 1 of them ships was as the kids say a core memory
This lady is so good. Didn't miss a beat.
Very awesome and informative video.
Incredible presentation! Wow!
thank you ive never been east of chicago but i really wanna go to the east coast and see the history but this will do for now!!!!
Lovely Presentation
Very well done.
Thanks.
Great presentation! Very interesting. I learned a lot about whaling that I didn't know.
wonderfully presented. thank you.
I hate to see people killing these beautiful creatures, but it's also fascinating what we were able to accomplish in those days.
it ALMOST seems like a fair fight.
Meh, life feeds on life. Just think how many lives those whales take themselves.
@@stephentumlin8613 not human. No ones crying a river for krill, plankton or a stray crab.
@@dqreps Krill, Humans, what's the difference? Try to suppose that a moralistic view might not appeal to everyone.
Fascinating
outstanding! thank you
Really enjoyable lecture!
Herman Melville goes into huge detail in Moby Dick about the nature of whales and the hunt. This lecture sits very nicely alongside that.
Really? This is a nice little chit chat, but it’s not anywhere near the heights of Melville’s work. You’ve read the book, right? 😂
of course, I've read it@@winskypinsky
Great video. Thank you
Man I wish I could be there to help you with camera work awesome presentation
Fantastic!
I’ll follow him around the Horn, and around the Norway maelstrom, and around perdition’s flames before I give him up.
Great piece of work. Although I´m familiar with the subject I could learn new things.
amazing!!!
Awesome
Great documentary
There’s an anime for whaling, except the ship is an airship and the whales are fat dragons, though the processing scenes are similar to what is described. It’s also shouldn’t be much of a surprise that there is an anime since Japan is a top whaling country
What's the name of the anime?
Gonna give us a name?
I forgot airship something
Drifting dragons is the name of the anime
@@zinovyrozhestvensky652 no problem, I just looked it up. Apparently it's called "Drifting Dragons" or something like that
The whale was going like ow ow ow ow!
Fire in the chimney ! Lol damn
I couldn’t find any books on whale hunting on Amazon I’m curious where the source of research came from. Any book recommendations?
there' a bunch. Men & Whales, The History of the American Whale Fishery by Starbuck, The Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of North America by Scammon, Dolin's book, etc.
Check out “Heart of the Sea” by Nathaniel Philbrick
Moby dick
You had to be a brave man to circle the globe to the deepest parts of the ocean, get in a row boat and hunt an 80 ton bull Sperm whale.
BLOOD AND THUNDER
Watched this so could relate better to Moby Dick as I read it 😂👏🏼
20:00
Cameraman training to take down a megalodon! No Harpoon needed!
Oh I thought this was a body positive video
So fossil fuel saved whale.
I would bet they took their shoes off for safety.
Think about it you're fighting a whale in a little boat if you get knocked over it's probably easier to swim in your bare feet.
Or maybe they took their shoes off because they didn't want to walk around with wet shoes on all day or maybe their shoes are made out of some kind of poor material that didn't do well with salt water
Also it’s easier to climb rigging with bare feet
They also didn't want to lose their shoes in the ocean.
Three whales gave this a thumbs down.
Now we're up to five whales as of August 24, 2020.
Agreed. But I believe it’s; they gave it a flukes down. 🐋
Container ships kill more whales daily than these whale hunters ever did
They caught tens of thousands of whales every year in the 1950s and 60s. Fuck you're ignorant as fuck.
Oh, and Yankee whalers killed thousands each year. Tell me how many are killed by container ships each year? I'd love you to share your "expertise". hahah
Why does she refer to the whale as “he”?
I went to the museum last month and she referred to the sperm whales as they/them and the right whales as ze/zer. Changing times eh?!
@@mcdaddy2011 God i hope you're joking.
"Hang on tight and then just swallow."
Whaling captains were just as often free black men as white Quakers particularly in Nantucket ie. Paul Curie, Adsolam Boston, both men built and owned and operated their ships, plural
The latter man who's, family house still stands on Nantucket as a museum. Don't forget the many native American captains and blacks from Cape Verde. Whaling was truly the equal opportunity industry of its time based on merit and skills. Good information otherwise.
Who cares about their race?
@@brileyvandyke5792 Racists, mostly.
Sheeps ??!!!!
Take off your shoes because its really hard to swim in clothes and shoes when something happens and your swimming for your life cant believe they didn't know y you would take your shoes off .if the slay ride wrecked your boat you don't want to be swimming for miles with wool natural fiber dress and shoes your goner when i was a kid i alomost drown playing at the swiming pond and went over my hear on my bike wearing work boots and sweat suit and had to try to strip under water lucky i was only 1' over my head if i was in ocean i would of went to the bottom
So the Indians never thought itd be a good idea to go hunt a whale?
Didn't need to
The whale was used to build homes, soap, medication, food, SO MUCH
jonahs lentil soup
bird shirts table all regroup
john goffreds moms stoop
spermicetti stored
rutland oakham apples cored
sailor moon adored
gay
Coming here to understand Moby Dick better. Still hate whaling.
Some details she gets right. Unfortunately, the majority of the science presented between 7:53 and 11:20 is wrong. She got other details wrong in this presentation as well.
Unfortunately the only thing that Nantucket has is for its whaling culture
34 minutes and she never mentioned how we damn near killed off all these whales for some stupid lamp oil??!!
I said sea shepard sucks 😂😂😂
And everyone watching the snow that that whale suffered every moment until it died, this is not Humane, it's not okay. And for a country that says they're so enlightened to be doing this for hundreds of years is absolutely gross
You do realize we stopped ages ago
You do realize just about every European country with a fucking port caught whales at some point, right? America, Canada, Australia, UK, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, etc. You're ignorant af.
New to studying history, are you?
Poor camera optics and a squeaky voiced narrator. There are many other docs on Nantucket whaling that are more pleasing.
Bet you are alot of fun.
While I disagree with your comment , can you please tell me which documentaries on trying to learn about this subject
leonard childs, would you like a refund ?
This isn’t a documentary Bruv. This is a recording of a museum presentation.