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Article: GRENADES SPEED WHALE KILLINGS.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- July 2, 2002
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Byline: Associated Press
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan -- The Whalegrenade-99 is a far cry from the hand-thrown harpoons of old.
Fired from a powerful cannon, it is tipped with a red, stainless steel cartridge about two inches wide that contains 20 grams of the explosive penthrite. When the tip has penetrated about a foot into a whale, the penthrite detonates, creating temperatures of several thousand degrees.
Death usually takes between two and three minutes.
Along with the global movement over the past few decades to ban whaling altogether, there is a lower profile but equally intense debate over how whales might be hunted in a more humane ...