The whalers' day begins early. The crew of Why Ask at the oars are . from the bow, Athneal Ollivierre, Norman Morgan , Adam Foley, Ephriam Binoe and Sintil Snagg .
The Dart hurries to the point where her harpooner, Lionel Durham, expects the whale to surface.
With tense expectation the men wait, looking and listening for a sign of the whale , which they know is down there-somewhere .