Read how Whale Survived a Harpoon

Read how Whale Survived a Harpoon In 2007, Alaskan Inupiat hunters discovered a remarkable 19th-century bomb lance fragment deeply embedded in the blubber of a harvested Bowhead whale. This bomb lance, an explosive harpoon used by whalers between 1885 and 1895 and manufactured likely in New Bedford, Massachusetts, was designed to kill whales immediately by…