| Whalers
caught what they could and there was no sure way of knowing what
would come next. The baleen whales or rorquals were treated
the same way, but sperm whales were treated differently because of
their unique oil filled organ - the "spermaceti organ".
This massive organ occupies about 1/4 to 1/3 of the whales total
length. In this picture it extends from where the lower jaw is
hinged right to the front of the whale. The whole of that huge
portion of the whale is the spermaceti organ and is filled with
oil of different qualities that is used for different purposes
including some of the finest quality oil to be found anywhere that
was of the highest value in precision engineering. |
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