Posted on 06/12/2007 3:38:41 PM PDT by 11th_VA
This photo released by the New Bedford Whaling Museum shows the tip of the bomb lance fragment, patented in 1879, that was removed from the neck of a bowhead whale captured at Barrow, Alaska, in May 2007. The body of the bomb lance was not recovered. The shiny scars are the result of a chain saw cut. (AP Photo/New Bedford Whaling Museum)
Cool story!
Ping.
Holy cow, had no idea they could live that long.
Me, neither. Learn something here everyday.
I didn’t realize they lived that long.
Had it been found washed up on a beach along with whale bones, it would have been Millions of years old, and come with a theory that man hunted whales with primitive iron weapons.
Of course, a decayed and fosilized outhouse nearby would be "the foundry" where these primitive early iron spear heads were made....
A young whale "blubberi obnoxious"
Very cool story, indeed. Thanks for the ping.
That’s a whale of a story!
Oh, God no!! Please don’t tell me she might live that long!!!!
Interesting stuff. There have been reports of finding arrowheads and musket balls in the shells of alligator snapping turtles, as well.
Great story. Now I suppose some anti religious schmuck will find Jonah in a whale to prove he never left the belly of the whale.bwhahaha!
MAN THE HARPOONS!
holy cow! Moby Dick lives!
Obviously they can live longer. At least this one could have if it had survived the second shot. Hope they got some good steaks.
“The 49-foot male whale died when it was shot with a similar projectile last month, and the older device was found buried beneath its blubber as hunters carved it with a chain saw for harvesting.”
Killed an 130 year old whale. Just something wrong with that. Not the hunt itself.
“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.“Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!”
thar she blows!
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