"It was one of those explosive harpoons, all right," he said.

She had been given a harpoon gun and four explosive harpoons.

By 'the bomb' I knew he meant the explosive harpoon set in the head of the great drill.

The late-19th-century introduction of the explosive harpoon, though, allowed whalers to accelerate their take.

He searched a vast area of choppy, gray water, an explosive harpoon never far from his hand.

That explosive harpoons burst in their jellied mantle without damaging them.

A close-up showed that a shoot had sprung open like an explosive harpoon when the animal bit down on it.

An explosive harpoon is being developed, not only to damage less meat, but to kill whales quickly and humanely.

In the late 19th century, steam propulsion and the explosive harpoon opened up new whaling opportunities.

Maybe he was floundering down there like a wounded whale, surrounded by a ring of explosive harpoons.

The explosive harpoon is a device used by whalemen to kill whales efficiently and without poison.

A certain type of explosive harpoon fired from a shoulder gun, first used by American whalemen in the mid-19th century, was called a "bomb lance."

Instead, whales are harvested at sea often using explosive harpoons, which puncture the skin of a whale and then explode inside its body.

He was the inventor of the explosive harpoon for whaling, and a precursor to the more famous Foyn .

After it became possible in the late 19th century to kill the great whales with explosive harpoons, the world's whalers killed a million and a half of them.

When he invented the explosive harpoon, back in the 1870's, he made an entry in his diary thanking God for having done all the work.'

Another Norwegian, Arent Christian Dahl, also experimented with explosive harpoons from 1857-1860.

They say it is impossible to hunt semi-submerged mammals by shooting explosive harpoons from heaving ship decks without causing some to die slow, agonizing deaths.

The development of explosive harpoons and steam-powered whaling ships in the late nineteenth century brought previously unobtainable large whales within reach of commercial whalers.

After touring freezers and hefting 90-pound explosive harpoons, one group of teenagers was asked by a Kyodo News Agency reporter if anyone had ever eaten whale meat.

I've heard people say that there's no longer any excitement in whaling, that Sven Foynd's invention of the explosive harpoon took all the adventure out of it.

However, it led to the public misperception that whales were no longer endangered, and the resultant apathy was almost as deadly as the explosive harpoons used by the pirates.

But in attacking her, the shark has moved close enough for Preacher to shoot it with an explosive harpoon, which he detonates by connecting the trailing wires to a battery.

A number of "anti-whaling" countries, notably Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, argued that the present normal method of killing (by explosive harpoon) was morally unacceptable.

Dirigibles gathered like carrion fish at the edges of Parliament airspace, overlooking the Collective, beyond the reach of explosive harpoons, of grenades or squads of Collectivist wyrmen.