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@@ -20,12 +20,26 @@ So `spermacite whale' means `whale sperm whale'.
 `Spermacite' is a thick, waxy substance that is speculated to aid with bouyancy, however it cannot be confirmed because sperm whales hate us now.
 But it definitely isn't sperm.
 
-\subsubsection{Whale Products}
+\subsubsection{Whalers}
 
-Once a whale is caught, whalers peel its skin like an orange, and boil the blubber into whale oil.
-Whale meat gets harvested for food.
-Bones are sometimes ground into fertilizer
+Killing a whale is not a fun day.
+Everyone who does it has to do it.
+Bastards and other surplus -- men who have no apprenticeship, or inheritance -- have one clear path to make their living.
+They board a whaling boat, and sail.
+
+Once they have a whale in sight, they propel harpoons using gunpowder weapons, or their arms.
+The side of their boat swivels out to provide a netted `shelf' for the whale's processing.
+
+Once a whale is caught, the whalers must work fast and harvest as much as they can before the whale dies, and rot begins.
+Some must walk on top of it, and hope to balance well enough to not fall into the icy-cold waters.
+The whalers peel its skin like an orange, then extract and boil the blubber into whale oil.
+
+Some whalers collect toothed whales' teeth and carve them to pass the time (it's either that or homoeroticism).
 
+\subsubsection{Bountiful Corpses}
+
+Whale meat gets harvested for food.
+Bones are sometimes ground into fertilizer.
 Sperm whales get scalped and have spermacite extracted from the junk
 (`junk' is the actual name of the part of their heads that house the liquid).
 Spermacite is brought to land, where it's chilled over Winter, and later squeezed into sperm oil.
@@ -35,8 +49,6 @@ Baleen is also called `whalebone', despite being closer to nails or hair than bo
 Baleen is harvested from the whale's mouth, and used wherever a thin flexible material can be used.
 Most famously, it was used for clothes' construction -- corsets, stays, bustles, crinolines, et c.
 
-Whalers collect toothed whales' teeth and carve them to pass the time (it's either that or homoeroticism).
-
 Ambergris is fossilized bowel secretions of sperm whales.
 It's speculated to be a reaction to bowel irritations.