In chapter 126 I found it kind of creepy when the shipmates were talking about the wailing sounds that they hear at night. One man claims that the noise is actually the moans of the newly dead seamen. I think this is scary but it also shows how dangerous being out at sea really is. Later on in the chapter we get a perfect example of this when one of the shipmates from The Pequod actually falls off the boat and into the water. The men throw out an old lifebuoy to try and save him but lifesaver is so old itself that it absorbs the water and sinks. The poor man drowns and not much is done about the mans death.. only the lifesaver is replaced with the coffin that Queequeg made. Ahab then tells the carpenter to turn the coffin into a new lifesaver, the old carpenter mutters how ironic it seems to take the materials from a coffin to try and save lives. In the end of the chapter Ahab and Pip begin bonding–I’m not sure whose crazier. In the next few pages The Pequod meets another boat called The Rachel.  The captain from The Rachel begs Ahab to help him find his son but Ahab is too obsessed with finding the white whale to stop and help the poor man find his son. The en from the Rachel give news that the white whale is near and for the next few nights Ahab wonders around the deck day and night looking for his enemy. In chapter 130 Ahab is so crazed with Moby Dick that he decides he MUST be the first to stop the whale, he convinces Stubb to help him up to the masthead? ( I don’t really see how he could do this with a peg leg? .) Once he is up there a bird swoops down and steals his hat.