The whale has died from it`s wounds as it tried to swim back to sea.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/151452.html
our local paper screwed up the headline - “....Gay Whale”
Shot up to 21 times? With a .50 BMG rifle. I’d say that .50 BMG is not enough gun for gray whale. Once they’d harpooned the beast, they were probably trying to put it out of its misery and/or get it to stop fighting. Sounds like they need a bigger boat, or more boats, the latter is probably the way it was done in the Old Days.