1016 Abdominal Rupture (1/2)
Leaving others to maintain the order, Zhang Zian and Ke Shaohui stepped onto the speedboat together.
”The harpoon is made by fishermen. I don't know how far it can shoot. I only know they are used to shoot tuna.” Ke Shaohui carefully picked up the harpoon, so as to not let the sharp end point at people. He did not want to shoot anyone by mistake. After all, it was made by fishermen, so the quality was not guaranteed.
”Tuna?” Zhang Zian found that interesting. ”Is there tuna in Binhai City?”
He had grown up there and had never heard of any fisherman fishing for tuna before.
Ke Shaohui shook his head. ”Well, as far as I know, there is no such thing, but according to the fishermen, tuna has been spotted off the coast of Binhai City. You know, tuna weighs tens of kilograms and is full of muscle. It swims very fast. It can easily reach a speed of over 50 knots per hour in open sea. It has a strong impact. It needs ocean purse-seine fishing boats to catch it. The cost is very high. Our country's fishing boats are mainly offshore trawlers, which can't catch tuna. But it's not realistic to buy new boats for tuna fishing alone. The unit price of the fishing boat is more than 100 million yuan, so the fishermen try to make their own harpoon guns. They want to use the harpoon to catch the tuna to sell to local Japanese restaurants.”
He then added, ”We confiscated their harpoon guns, but not because they caught tuna. After all, tuna is not a protected animal. They fished during the fishing ban so we took them.”
Zhang Zian understood. The tunas was obviously attracted there by Sihwa. The fishermen knew that tuna had high economical value, but tuna swam too fast. Trawler boats sighed at it and were unable to do anything. They used the wisdom of working people to make harpoons to shoot the fish.
Fishermen's self-made harpoon guns did not take into account any quality assurance and safety. The only requirement was to shoot long distances vigorously. Otherwise, there was no way to get them. It was like farmers' self-made fireworks and firecrackers. The opening of each gun was thicker than that of the other, and they desperately stuffed gunpowder inside for fear that the explosion would not be loud enough.
The shape of the harpoon gun was relatively simple. It was like putting a barbed javelin on a gun and attaching a cylinder gas tank for high-pressure gas emission.
Zhang Zian pondered, This harpoon gun might solve the urgent problem.
He told Ke Shaohui what he thought and asked the firefighters to discuss it. Everyone thought the plan was feasible.
They did it as soon as they said it. They found thick cables; one end was tied to the end of the harpoon and the other end was tied to the back of the speedboat.
Just in case, firefighters and fishery officials cleared the scene again, that time to evacuate the onlookers behind the connection between the speedboat and the whale carcass. If the harpoon missed the whale and hit a person instead, it would have been troublesome.
When everything was ready, an armed and trained firefighter stood at a distance of five meters and aimed carefully at the belly of the whale with a harpoon.
The audience at the scene saw the situation and thought they had guessed the intentions of firefighters and fishermen. They would eventually drag the dead whale into the sea. They held their breath and many people held up their mobile phones to take videos.
After aiming properly, the firefighter pressed the trigger. There was a slight clatter.
Driven by high-pressure gas, sharp harpoons burst out straight, leaving only a silvery shadow in people's eyes. It popped into the belly of the whale accurately, revealing only half of it outside the whale's skin.
After waiting for a while, everyone found that the wound had hardly sprayed blood; only a little blood oozed out. As Zhang Zian said, the thick fat layer quickly sealed the wound. Plus, the whale was dead, so the blood flow had stopped. Its blood pressure had dropped to zero, which was no match for the living whale.