Sunday Times: Japan invents super-harpoon to kill whales
JAPANESE whalers are testing a high-tech fragmentation harpoon, equipped with an enlarged charge of high explosive, to help to slaughter endangered whales in the seas around Antarctica. The device is being used to kill humpback and fin whales...The revelation comes just a week after Britain was held spellbound by attempts to rescue a bottlenose whale that became disoriented in the Thames. It died of dehydration...The explosive harpoons hurl shards of metal through the whale’s body to sever major nerves and blood vessels and so cause rapid death...more...
