In 1851, Heeman Melville wroteMoby Dick, based on an Essex crew member’s account of a horrifying 1820 ordeal in which the Nantucket, Massachusetts whaling vessel Essex was rammed and sunk in the South Pacific by a sperm whale. George Pollard Jr. and his surviving crew resorted to cannibalism in order to survive while they drifted in the open ocean for more than a month. Eventually, Pollard took command of another whaler, the “Two Brothers.” On Feb. 11, 1823, however, his 2nd ship hit a shallow reef off the coast of Hawaiit, and the crew was rescued the next day by a fellow whaler who happened along their location. Now, 188 years later, maritime heritage archaeologists, working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has found the Two Brothers shipwreck nearly 600 miles northwest of Honolulu, off French Frigate Shoals in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in Hawaii.
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