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Recovering the
harpoon from a partly flensed whale
- Whales and Whaling pictures 65
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Harpoons
are large and expensive objects, they can also be readily used
again, though are often bent and buckled after use, one of the
main reasons that whaling factory ships had a blacksmiths shop on
board.
Once the flensing process is sufficiently
progressed to expose the harpoon, it is cut out of the whale and
taken for re-use. This whale appears white as this is a layer of
connective tissue that has been exposed between the blubber that
has been removed and the muscle of the whale that lies beneath
this tissue. |
The
whaling gallery is a collection of images from a
whole range of sources. It is intended to inform
and illustrate a now (thankfully) vanished occupation and way of life that for the men
so engaged was hard and often
dangerous. It is intended for historical interest rather than a commentary on the ethics of whaling. |
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