Smrtonosna borba izme\u0111u kita i broda, koja je Hermana Melvillea inspirirala za slavni roman Moby Dick, dogodila se 20. studenog 1820. godine. Borba se dogodila u Tihom oceanu, oko 2.000 kilometara daleko od obala Ju\u017ene Amerike. Brod se zvao Essex i bio je kitolovac iz Nantucketa \u2013 jednog od neko\u0107 najpoznatijih sredi\u0161ta kitolova na svijetu (Nantucket je opisan i u romanu o Moby Dicku).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brod Essex sukobio se s kitom vrste ulje\u0161ure (latinsko ime Physeter macrocephalus<\/em>). Rije\u010d je o najve\u0107im kitovima zubanima (ostale velike vrste kitova nemaju zube nego tzv. usi). Ulje\u0161ure su doista veli\u010danstvene \u017eivotinje \u2013 mogu biti duge preko 20 metara i te\u0161ke preko 56 tona. Postoji tvrdnja da je kit koji je potopio brod Essex bio duga\u010dak oko 26 metara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ulje\u0161ure se hrane prvenstveno divovskim lignjama, koje \u017eive na velikim dubinama. Stoga ulje\u0161ure mogu zaroniti dublje nego bilo koji drugi sisavci \u2013 \u010dak do 3.000 metara. Nadalje, ulje\u0161ure imaju i najve\u0107i mozak od bilo kojeg \u017eivog bi\u0107a na Zemlji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n U okr\u0161aju izme\u0111u ulje\u0161ure i kitolovca, brod je uni\u0161ten. Posada se dokopala \u010damaca koji su ina\u010de slu\u017eili za napad na kitove harpunima. Najbli\u017ee kopno bilo je udaljeno oko 1.900 kilometara, na Marki\u017eanskom oto\u010dju u Polineziji. Ipak, neki su uspjeli pre\u017eivjeti (pili su i vlastitu mokra\u0107u). Kapetan broda \u2013 George Pollard \u2013 pre\u017eivio je, a po njegovim je izvje\u0161tajima Herman Melville kasnije napisao Moby Dicka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (povijest.hr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Smrtonosna borba izme\u0111u kita i broda, koja je Hermana Melvillea inspirirala za slavni roman Moby Dick, dogodila se<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zabava"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shutterstock_103313360-e1479550126341.jpg",700,465,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shutterstock_103313360-e1479550126341-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shutterstock_103313360-e1479550126341-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shutterstock_103313360-e1479550126341.jpg",640,425,false],"large":["https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shutterstock_103313360-e1479550126341.jpg",640,425,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shutterstock_103313360-e1479550126341.jpg",700,465,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shutterstock_103313360-e1479550126341.jpg",700,465,false],"morenews-featured":["https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shutterstock_103313360-e1479550126341.jpg",700,465,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shutterstock_103313360-e1479550126341.jpg",700,465,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shutterstock_103313360-e1479550126341-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"radio orahovica","author_link":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/?author=2"},"category_info":"Zabava<\/a>","tag_info":"Zabava","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioorahovica.hr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}