Ocean Sentry
86 pilot whales were massacred on 29 October at Skálabotnur, Faroe Islands, bringing the total number of pilot whales and dolphins killed to 1691 so far in 2017.
As many as 86 pilot whales were reportedly massacred as locals used spinal lances to slay all of the pilot whales.
As the innocent whales were forced to swim towards the beaches, the locals began to run down from the jetty towards the sea.
Using a spinal lance to sever the animal’s spinal cord and its main blood supply to the brain, the locals began to cut down the animals.
Each year, this horrendous event is carried out across the archipelago of the Faroes Island. The Faroese have been carrying out the annual hunt for hundreds of years, and although whaling is illegal in Denmark, it is allowed in the Faroe Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean between Iceland and Norway.
The grindadráp, unlike most other large-scale hunts, has no season, no quota and no idea of how many animals they actually kill.
