Water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams. Not so with the whale one of whose peculiarities is, to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood-vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of In most land animals there are certain valves or flood gates in many of their veins, whereby when wounded, the blood is in some degree at least instantly shut off in certain directions. In the novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville explained the reason for the harpoon's effectiveness: The Temple toggle was widely used, and quickly came to dominate whaling. In the mid-19th century, the toggling harpoon was adapted by Lewis Temple, using iron. In the Arctic, the indigenous people used the more advanced toggling harpoon design. This flaw was corrected in the early nineteenth century with the creation of the one flue harpoon by removing one of the flues, the head of the harpoon was narrowed, making it easier for it to penetrate deep enough to hold fast. Thus it was often possible for the whale to escape by struggling or swimming away forcefully enough to pull the shallowly embedded barbs out backwards. The two flue harpoon was the primary weapon used in whaling around the world, but it tended to penetrate no deeper than the soft outer layer of blubber. It accomplishes this task by impaling the target animal and securing it with barb or toggling claws, allowing the fishermen to use a rope or chain attached to the projectile to catch the animal. Deck mounted cannon on a whaling ship in Alaska in 1915 with anĪ harpoon is a long spear-like instrument used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other marine hunting to catch large fish or marine mammals such as whales.

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