In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Directed by Ron Howard
In 1850 Herman Melville visits the last survivor of the whaleship Essex, who tells how the ship sailed from Nantucket around Cape Horn into the Pacific and was hunted by an enormous whale.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Nickerson's inn, 1850 (framing story)≈ 00:01:00Nantucket, MassachusettsStated on screen
Melville pays the aging Tom Nickerson to tell the story he has never told.
- 2Departure of the Essex≈ 00:07:00Nantucket, MassachusettsStated on screen
Owen Chase, passed over for captain, sails as first mate under the inexperienced George Pollard.
- 3First whale≈ 00:15:00Atlantic OceanInferred
A squall nearly wrecks the ship, then the crew kills and renders its first whale.
- 4Cape Horn≈ 00:25:00Inferred
After months without whales, the Essex rounds the Horn into the Pacific.
- 5Atacames, Ecuador≈ 00:28:00Stated on screen
In an Ecuadorian port a Spanish captain tells them of rich whaling grounds far to the west, and of a monstrous whale.
- 6The Essex is sunk≈ 00:38:00Offshore Ground, equatorial Pacific (where the Essex sank)Inferred
Far out in the Pacific the white whale rams and sinks the Essex, leaving the crew in three small boats.
- 7Henderson Island, Pitcairn Islands≈ 01:10:00Inferred
- 8Chase's boat rescued≈ 01:40:00Alejandro Selkirk Island (Más Afuera), ChileInferred
- 9Homecoming≈ 01:45:00Nantucket, MassachusettsStated on screen
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 49,666 km
- Places
- 7
- Countries
- 4
- Stops
- 9
- Boat: 49,666 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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