The Essex: Risks and Leadership

The biggest risk in the center of SEA, the tragedy of whale team Essex is the captain of Captain George Pollard Jr. Risk is a measure of risk of danger in a given situation. Risk is important for understanding in projects, management, investment, and everyday life. Personal risks may be an option such as riding bicycles on oncoming vehicles, or chemical companies may be in danger of dumping waste illegally into your drinking water.

In the 19th century, the suffering of whale Essex was a wonderful event, as Titanic was sinking in the 20th century. In 1819, Essex left Nantucket Island to move to the South Pacific. There were twenty crew members there. In the middle of the South Pacific, the ship was crushed and sank in an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted in boats of three small whales for over 90 days, succumbed to weather, hunger, illness, and eventually went through drastic measures in the struggle for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses less well-known documents, such as lost accounts, written by boys on board, and details about the whaling and Nantucket communities to clarify this. Fierce event of spectacular maritime disaster. A furious and attractive reading in the center of the sea, which always positions Essex's tragedy as an American historical classic, is an old work.

On August 12, 1819, Essex continued from Nantucket Island to the South Pacific, and began the last important journey. 21 men, including the first captain, George Pollard (Jr.), Are on board - this trip is expected to last up to three years. However, when the ship was temporarily stormed and sunk on August 14, the voyage almost ended. Due to the damage to Essex and the lack of two whale boats, Pollard chose to return to Nantucket at first. But First Mate Owen Chase - these people think knockdown is an ominous sign and may worry about persuading him to continue

When Essex finally arrived in the promised fishery of several thousand miles west of the coast of South America, the crew could not find a whale for a few days. Tension between Essex officials, especially Pollard and Chase. When they finally found a whale on November 16, it floated beneath Chase's boat and the result was that the ship was "broken ... literally fragmented". At 8 o'clock in the morning of November 20, 1820, a whale watching the water was sprayed and the remaining three whale boats began to chase a group of sperm whales. On the leeward side of Essex, the whale boat whale whale of Chase bumped the tail on the ship, opened the coal seams, made the crew a harpoon line, and returned Essex for repair. At two miles (3 km) on the windward side, Pollard and Joyce boat whales were dragged by the horizon far from Essex, known as "Nantucket Sled" whale.