Moby Dick (1998 miniseries) Moby Dick (1998 miniseries) Moby Dick is a 1998 American television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name. It was filmed in Australia in 1997 and first released in the United States in 1998. The miniseries consisted of two episodes, each running two hours with commercials on March 15 and 16 of 1998 on the USA Network. Ishmael is a young sailor who joins the crew of the whaling ship "Pequod"; Captain Ahab is in charge of "Pequod". Queequeg meets Ishmael at a motel and joins Ishmael in his whaling journey. Ahab rejects the repeated pleas
Anti-whaling area and another ship, the MV "Fisher" (formerly the MV "Yashima Maru"), was also being refitted for whaling and was registered in Panama. Nick Carter, his colleague Nan Rice, and many other conservationists personally urged Colin Eglin to act while international environmental organizations pressured the government for an official inquiry. When port authorities ordered all South African nationals off of the "Fisher", a foreign crew took the ship to the Canary Islands and it was renamed the "Astrid". Soon after, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society distributed wanted posters advertising a $25,000 reward to anyone who would sink it. Andrew Behr