After the real-life sinking of the Essex, only eight men survived to return home, and they are all represented in Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea. As the movie shows, after the whale's attack ...

Here are some incredible true stories behind them! Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was inspired by the 1820 sinking of the Essex, a tale of survival and obsession. William Peter Blatty's The ...

A digger driver has described getting that sinking feeling after becoming stuck in a silt-filled pond. Work was being carried out on the Doctors Pond, in Great Dunmow, Essex. "We dig a lot of ...