harpoon
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Additionally, obsessives can view Quint’s harpoon gun and original design specifications for the mechanical sharks built to terrorize Martha’s Vineyard in 1974.
From Los Angeles Times
They got their name because they were the “right” whales to harpoon — their bodies floated for easy recovery after they were killed.
From Los Angeles Times
But “the whale who spouts gets harpooned,” Phillips later noted after the “Democratic machine” set out to quash his chances.
From Los Angeles Times
Not believing him, the salesman behind the counter becomes the sole fatality in a freak harpoon gun accident that’s much more disgusting than I’m giving it credit for.
From Salon
Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers.
From Salon
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