Some Cajuns were just doing some fishing.
Old Tiktuk was out whale fishin' again with twenty sticks of dynamite.
Or maybe this was an al Qaeda ice bound IED attack on the eskimos and an unsuspecting convoy of whales got caught up in the fray.
“Dey useee dem Dupont Lures (half stick of dynamite) fo’ sure”.
Hugh finally fell thru the ice?