| 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. |
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