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The Hunt for Whales, presented at the Nantucket Whaling Museum

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 story passed down to each new generation of museum interpreters. This version of "The Hunt for Whales" was created as a multi-media object-theater presentation to celebrate the opening of the new Nantucket Whaling Museum in 2005 and has been presented daily in Gosnell Hall under the whale skeleton. The lecture has evolved over time with corrected and additional information. Today in 2025, it is known as "Life Aboard a Whaleship." This version can be viewed at    • Life Aboard a Whaleship at the Nantuc...  . NOTE: The following corrections to this video were provided by Robert Rocha from the New Bedford Whaling Museum in 2023. The science of sperm whale ecology should be adjusted as follows: Right whales don’t just feed at the surface. Sperm whales cannot hold their breath for two hours. Their eyesight is not poor. It certainly is not their primary means of picturing what’s around them. But it is well-adapted for seeing in water and they are able to pick up on visual cues, including bioluminescence. The presenter stated that sperm whales grab giant squid and shoot to the surface so that the squid will explode in the whale’s mouth. Sperm whales, and deep diving toothed whales in general, do not ascend in this fashion. Research has demonstrated that they ascend more deliberately, taking time to rest or swim horizontally and equilibrate the gases in their blood. Giant squid don't have a gas-filled cavity, so there's no structure that will expand and explode. If this were the case, the colossal squid, a deep-sea species, caught by New Zealand fishermen in 2007 would have exploded, or we'd never see giant squid washed up on beaches, intact. Sperm whales have never been recorded at two miles of depth. There's no proof that giant squid are their favorite food. They'll eat whatever squid is available. Sperm whales weren't hunted north of the Aleutian Islands. Being stabbed with a harpoon likely does hurt the whale. They do not have many feet of blubber. In the biggest of sperm whales, the blubber might be nearly 12" thick. But it’s normally thinner than that. When talking about ‘Chimney’s Afire’, which the presenter called “There’s Fire in the Chimney,” she said that the whale is no longer spouting water or air…whales don’t spout water. Also There’s 1800 feet of line in a tub, not 1500. The cooper and the carpenter are not the same person ________________________________________________ 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