Adventure: Whale Adventure

Hal and Roger Hunt joint scientist Arthur Scott for a three-week voyage on a Pacific whaler. Scott is to record the old method of whaling, fast dying out, but Hal and Roger are to make up the crew, and learn the hard way about life aboard an old-fashioned whaling ship.
Captain Grindle, a primitive bully whose word - or fist - is law, resents them from the start. As well as the rough and dangerous battles with whales and scavenging sharks, the boys must survive his brutal treatment, mutiny, and shipwreck. All in all, the trip offers more adventure than Hal and Roger bargained for...