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The seal must be shot in the head and caught rapidly or else it might sink and escape the hunter. Going on a successful seal hunt, on a boat, with Bent and Dina Igniatiussen. Life in and around the small Inuit settlement of Isortoq (population of 64), in East Greenland.

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The seal must be shot in the head and caught rapidly or else it might sink and escape the hunter. Going on a successful seal hunt, on a boat, with Bent and Dina Igniatiussen. Life in and around the small Inuit settlement of Isortoq (population of 64), in East Greenland.