Lightning Strikes Twice The Reallife Sequel to Moby Dick (2013)

In the middle of the night on February 11 1823 the seafaring career of Captain George Pollard Jr came to a dramatic end in the remote northwestern Hawaiian Islands Having survived the tragic events of the Essex one of the worlds most infamous seafaring disasters and the true life events that inspired Herman Melvilles novel Moby Dick Pollard optimistically set sail for the Pacific once again in the whaleship Two Brothers believing with all his heart that it was an old adage that the lightning never struck in the same place twice In this case it did and Pollards promising career as a whaling captain came to a tragic end on an uncharted reef in the most remote archipelago on earth and what is now Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument In 2008 a team of NOAA maritime archaeologists discovered the first clues of the whaleship Two Brothers and began to unlock the mystery of the only Nantucket whaleship ever found on the sea floor