Which choice provides the best objective summary of the excerpt?

A.
Captain Pollard seems to have had the worst time at sea. First, he loses a ship to a whale crushing it, then he loses his second ship when it hits rocks.
B.
A large whale destroys the Essex in 1820. The captain survives and then is most unlucky when he also loses that ship on rocks.
C.
The Essex, while sailing in the Pacific, encounters a very large whale that destroys it. The captain, on a second voyage, loses another ship on unseen rocks and decides to stop going on sea voyages.
D.
Whaling ships sail at extreme risk. The Essex was lost at sea when it was viciously attacked by a whale. On another voyage, another ship ran into rocks and breakers.

Whaling ships sail at extreme risk. The Essex was lost at sea when it was viciously attacked by a whale. On another voyage, another ship ran into rocks and breakers.

What befell the survivors of the Essex?

The rescue succeeded. On March 17, Pollard and Ramsdell were reunited with Chase, Lawrence, and Nickerson. by the time the remaining eight survivors have been rescued on April 5, 1821, the corpses of seven fellow sailors have been fed on. All eight went to sea again within months of their return to Nantucket.

Why did the whale attack the Essex?

Whaling became a rewarding business. Whales, the species sought by using the Essex and maximum different whalers of the time, were valued for each their blubber and waxy oil observed on their massive heads. these substances have been refined into oils that had been utilized in candles, cosmetics, and lubricants for machinery.

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