Sentences with phrase «find whale oil»

Starring Chris Hemsworth as experienced first mate Owen Chase, and Benjamin Walker as the untested Captain Pollard, the film begins by taking us back to 1820 and to Nantucket, New England where the whaling ship Essex has set off to find whale oil to bring back to fuel the city.

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But, like the missing oil, the effects of the blowout on deep - sea life — whether sperm whales or sea cucumbers — may be hard to find given the mysteries surrounding the lives of these animals.

For roughly 100 years, sperm whales were hunted for the semi-waxy oil found in their head.

In turn, killer whales that feed on seals consume the equivalent of five tons of plankton for each pound of their body weight.12 This phenomenon would explain why Weston Price found seal oil, which he estimated to constitute 200 calories per day of the Inuit diet, to be several times higher in the fat - soluble vitamins than ordinary cod liver oil.30

these wonderful whales to insanity, disorientation, and mass death in order to find every drop of oil to allow us to continue our oil consumption and keep prices low, all the while putting the carbon into the atmosphere?

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