You ask and we deliver. A reader requested video of the Lamalera Sperm Whale Hunt. I immediately dispersed DSN whipping boy and now blogger extraordinare to the remote island. He quickly filmed the fisherman just 30 minutes ago and uploaded this video to at Google.
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