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Small Catch, Slim Prices. Jahre made his choice on economic grounds. To outfit and dispatch the factory ship and catcher boats that make up a whaling expedition costs about $3,000,000 a season. In a good year, the catch of whales can return many times that amount in meat and oil. But despite the efforts of an international whaling commission, whalers have so depleted the Antarctic that catches today are uneconomically small. Ten years ago, factory ships sent to sea by Norwegian owners processed 905,000 barrels of oil from 31,000 whales in one season. Last year...
...third less than it was a decade ago. One way to overcome the price drop might be to follow the Japanese example and process every part of a whale, from tooth to tail fluke. But this means a considerable extra investment in factory-ship equipment that the Norwegians are no longer willing to make, especially since their government, while urging them to continue whaling, has offered no subsidy to make it profitable. When Jahre tied up his factory ship Kosmos IV, it marked the end of an enterprise that made millionaires out of owners and national heroes...
...observe the astronomical transit of the planet Venus from Tahiti; to map coasts and islands; to collect and classify strange flora and fauna; to search for a naval base for the coming war with the American colonies, Spain and France. Manned and equipped for all this, the little ship resembled the Swiss Family Robinson afloat. It was stuffed to the gunwales with pigs and goats (for eating), cats and parrots (to break the monotony), even a hunting greyhound named Lady who was used to chase down rare specimens of game...
...Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that his men wash, but he forbade them to pray (especially when the ship was in danger, as she often was) for fear that prayer would rob them of the will to work...
...smooth muscles and relaxed carriage of a country club athlete, the dark eyes and black, slightly curly hair of a choir boy, the poise and manner of a ship's purser. He grins a lot. -- Dan Jenkins, Sports Illustrated...