Captain Ahab Captain Ahab Captain Ahab is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" (1851). He is the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship "Pequod". On a previous voyage, the white whale Moby Dick bit off Ahab's leg, and he now wears a prosthetic leg made out of whalebone. The whaling voyage of the "Pequod" ends up as a hunt for revenge on the whale, as Ahab forces the crew members to support his fanatical mission. When Moby Dick is finally sighted, Ahab's hatred robs him of all caution, and the whale drags Ahab to the bottom of
Whaling in Japan 2008, two crew members traveling on the MV "Steve Irwin" boarded the whaling ship "Yushin Maru 2" without permission and were subsequently detained on board the ship for a number of days. Japan claimed that four crew members on board a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters were injured March 3, 2008, when the anti-whaling group threw butyric acid on board. Japan confirmed the later throwing of "flashbang" grenades onto the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship, MV "Steve Irwin" by their whaling factory ship, "Nisshin Maru". Japan also confirmed firing a "warning shot" into the air. The captain of the