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To dive so deep and remain there for over an hour,
為了潛入深海并停留超過(guò)一小時(shí)
whales must spend around ten minutes, filling their lungs and blood with oxygen...
鯨魚需要花約十分鐘，使其肺部和血液中充滿氧氣
much to the interest of a passing fur seal.
路過(guò)的海狗似乎饒有興趣
These young bulls will now spend another 15 years bulking up in the nutrient-rich seas.
年輕的雄鯨將在這片食物豐富的海域中生長(zhǎng)十五年
Only when they have become 30-tonne giants
只有成長(zhǎng)為重達(dá)三十噸的龐然大物
will the largest predators on Earth finally return to the tropics to compete for a mate.
這種地球上最大的食肉動(dòng)物才會(huì)回到熱帶爭(zhēng)奪配偶
200 years ago, on the other side of the South Pacific,
兩百年前，在南太平洋的另一邊
the journey of our whalemen was coming to an end.
捕鯨人的旅程也即將結(jié)束
94 days after the ship was scuttled by a sperm whale,
在船只被抹香鯨撞沉的九十四天后
one of the whale boats was finally spotted 400 miles off the coast of Chile.
其中一只捕鯨小艇終于到達(dá)智利海岸外六百多公里處
Only Captain Pollard and Ramsdell remained, gnawing on the bones of their dead shipmates.
船上只剩下波拉德船長(zhǎng)和拉姆斯得爾，啃食著死去船員的骨頭
17 days earlier, in their darkest hour, they had drawn lots, executed and eaten them.
十七天前，在最絕望的時(shí)候，他們進(jìn)行抽簽，抽中的人被殺死并分食。
