Rare 1823 Wreck Found—Capt. Linked to "Moby-Dick," Cannibalism

Lightning struck ill-fated skipper twice..

Linked to Moby-Dick and skippered by a man who (reluctantly) ate his own cousin, the whaling ship Two Brothers has been lost on a remote Pacific reef since 1823.


Now experts say they've found hard evidence of the ship 600 miles (970 kilometers) from Honolulu (map). If confirmed, the discovery would be the first of a wrecked whaler from Nantucket (map), Massachusetts—the birthplace of the U.S. whaling industry....................

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...antucket-noaa/