These tools included
harpoon heads tipped with triangular endblades; thin, razor-sharp microblades; stone graving and scraping tools; and general-purpose knives with bifacially chipped edges.
Mr Countinho was still able to call for help and rushed to intensive care where medics performed two operations on him to remove the
harpoon.
"They're [whales] hit with an explosive
harpoon that goes straight into their body, hooks come out and shrapnel is sent through their body, it's a terrible bloody death...
"[We] went out to RIMPAC to do a firing that was fundamentally to demonstrate the integration of
Harpoon onto LCS and to show it could be safely employed.
"Once on the whale's back the Lamafa drives the
harpoon home, then he detaches the
harpoon head and ties the rope to the boat.
If all goes to plan, the washing machine-sized lander will separate from Rosetta at 0835 GMT (3:35 a.m.) and drift down to the comet, where it will latch on using
harpoons and screws.
"A
harpoon is worth its weight in gold over any gaff you own," says Grant.
Washington, Dec 14 (ANI): Scientists at NASA want to send a spacecraft that will meet with a comet and then fire a
harpoon to rapidly acquire samples from specific locations with surgical precision while hovering above the target.
"Brewing this 100 Barrel Series beer together gave us a great opportunity to retied on 25 years of
Harpoon," Dan says.
I sat beside my 10-foot trophy and looked at the broken shafts and the rips and tears from six
harpoons. I felt like Ahab.
An anti-whaling activist has been indicted in Tokyo for illegally boarding the Shonan Maru II, a Japanese
harpoon boat, as part of a protest against a whale hunting expedition in Antarctic seas.
It still doesn't explain why snipers are circling to
harpoon him like Japanese fishermen tracking a humpback whale.