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Stealhead · 08-12-12, 07:42 PM

It sounds a bit BSish to me if a ship can just run over a whale why have they used harpoons for all this time?

I think that the whale would have the awareness that something else large was near to it.

It must not be so easy or again why bother with a harpoon?

That and in my experience many people are full of it and will embellish.For example my neighbor was in Vietnam and I know he
was a true combatant but the story he tells about shooting an M79 into an old french bunker on the beach while he was drunk on R&R I know that it is not true.
I know this because his older brother was also in Nam in a different unit and he says his brother never got a single starch in the war.

Not saying that Gargamel is but his in law is most likely full of it.

08-12-12, 07:42 PM	#4
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	It sounds a bit BSish to me if a ship can just run over a whale why have they used harpoons for all this time? I think that the whale would have the awareness that something else large was near to it. It must not be so easy or again why bother with a harpoon? That and in my experience many people are full of it and will embellish.For example my neighbor was in Vietnam and I know he was a true combatant but the story he tells about shooting an M79 into an old french bunker on the beach while he was drunk on R&R I know that it is not true. I know this because his older brother was also in Nam in a different unit and he says his brother never got a single starch in the war. Not saying that Gargamel is but his in law is most likely full of it.