In "The Chase - Third Day" from Moby Dick, how does another character present Ahab with the choice to turn back and avoid the tragedy?

Question

I've really been struggling with this question for a while. I've found a couple of quotes, but I don't know if they are correct. Can someone please help me with this question?

Answer 1

There are two moments of intervention that stand out to me in this chapter. The first is here:

"Some men die at ebb tide; some at low water; some at the full of the flood;—and I feel now like a billow that's all one crested comb, Starbuck. I am old;—shake hands with me, man."

Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.

"Oh, my captain, my captain!—noble heart—go not—go not!—see, it's a brave man that weeps; how great the agony of the persuasion then!"

"Lower away!"—cried Ahab, tossing the mate's arm from him. "Stand by the crew!"

In an instant the boat was pulling round close under the stern.

"The sharks! the sharks!" cried a voice from the low cabin-window there; "O master, my master, come back!"

But Ahab heard nothing; for his own voice was high-lifted then; and the boat leaped on.

The second is here, Starbuck gives his a second chance before the end:

"Oh! Ahab," cried Starbuck, "not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist. See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!"