"STEPHEN SMITH: Well, late last night, I'm very pleased to advise that they were transferred from the Japanese whaling ship to the Customs vessel, the Oceanic Viking."
"The annual mid-winter "Moby-Dick Marathon" brings together townsfolk for a 25-hour nonstop reading of the epic that was inspired by author Herman Melville's journey on a whaling ship that departed New Bedford in 1841."