english: Herman Melville, who used this story as research for "Moby Dick," wrote years later, and from dry land, quote, "All the sufferings of these miserable men of the Essex might in all human probability have been avoided had they, immediately after leaving the wreck, steered straight for Tahiti.
non_english: Herman Melville, ki je to zgodbo uporabil pri pisanju "Moby Dick-a", je nekaj let kasneje, na trdni zemlji, zapisal "Vsemu trpljenju teh nesrečnih mož iz Essex-a bi se lahko izognili, če bi se, takoj ko so zapustili potopljeno ladjo obrnili naravnost proti Tahitiju.