“They are called Cape Horn Rollers or ‘greybeards.’ Their length has been estimated from crest to crest to exceed a mile, and the terrified reports of some mariners have placed their height at 200 feet, though scientists doubt that they very often exceed 80 or 90 feet.” (Lansing225). This stuck out to me as a hyperbole it is really common for people to come back and over exaggerate things that happen in the ocean. The poor crew was scared because they had heard about these reports. They were worried for their own lives. Shackleton and his small crew on the boat wanted to find help and land. They knew the people back on the island were counting on them, and more then anything they wanted to help them by reaching help themselves. When they were trying to get over the rough sea I couldn’t stop thinking of that scene from Castaway. Tom Hanks was trying to get out of rough sea himself.
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