00:00You think strength is found in the arms, in the fight, in how loud you roar back at the storm.
00:07But strength is knowing when to stand, even when you're alone.
00:12When your crew looks to you with eyes hollowed out by starvation and fear,
00:17and you still find the voice to say, we push forward.
00:21They speak of men and storms, of wails and heroism, but no one writes of the silence.
00:26The long, aching silence when the sea is still but your mind is not.
00:31I wasn't supposed to be there.
00:33I stowed away with a promise and a prayer, and I kept praying even when my hands bled from rowing,
00:40even when we carved names into driftwood so we wouldn't be forgotten.
00:44I saw what the sea could do to a man's soul.
00:47I watched it tear through the strongest of us, gnawing on our hopes like salt on a wound.
00:53I wasn't born to lead. I was made into it by the ocean's fury and the things we did to survive it.
01:00The whale wasn't just an animal, it was a reckoning.
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