Possible Clues:

• 'I drive the sea!' crier
• Fictional character who says 'I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer'
• Fictional captain who said 'Thou damned whale!'
• Captain hunting the whale Moby-Dick
• A sailor catching fish's tail? He was after something much bigger!
• A repeated action, though it's not apparent in obsessive seaman
• Captain of the ''Pequod''
• 'Moby-Dick' helmsman
• A sailor holding one end of harpoon?
• Literary hunter