The film contains scenes depicting sailors cutting up a whale carcass into pieces and extracting oil from the animals blubber. In one instance, a young boy is told to scrap off the last bits of oil from the carcasss cavity. The boy squeezes through a small opening on top of the body and lands in a puddle of oil that is mixed with the animals blood.
The film also contains some intense sequences where a whale is seen assaulting a ship and harassing the boats that are carrying survivors. During these assaults, some sailors are thrown overboard and killed by the whales attacks. The attacks are somewhat prolonged and depicted with some bloodletting.
A suicide is depicted in which a man places a gun to his head and pulls the trigger.