Things Beneath the Waves!

One of the most famous documented sea monster sightings happened in 1848 aboard the British naval ship HMS Hull.

Daedalus, okay? And if you want to look this up later, Daedalus is spelled D-A-E-D-A-L-U-S.

Now, this wasn't one random fisherman telling a story or a crazy story at a dockside bar.

This was witnessed by trained military crew professionals, okay? Multiple officers, multiple witnesses.

People truly experienced an unidentified marine creature life species that, I mean, I guess has not been reported.

I mean, according to this account, I sure don't know any creature that looks like this that's alive to date in our science books.

So.

According to the reports, the crew encountered an enormous serpent-like creature in the South Atlantic Ocean, and witnesses described it as having a very long body stretching through the water with part of its neck raised several feet above the surface.

When I hear this, I think of Loch Ness.

I think of Kodiak Sea Monster.

Heck, I think of some of the really incredible marine logs of strange, enormous sea life.

So Captain Peter Macquah officially documented this sighting in his ship's log.

This detail matters because this wasn't some lore whispered around campfires.

This was formally recorded naval testimony from the crew and from the captain.

Their creature reportedly moved with purpose and speed, gliding through the water unlike anything the crew had recognized before, according to their log.

And to this day, people still debate what they actually saw.

Some say, was it a giant eel? I mean, I don't know eels that can raise their head several feet above the water, but if they can, here we go.

Let's document that in our science books.

A few others had put down, and I wrote this down because I found this to be very interesting, i don't know kind of arrogant and condescending um unknown whale behavior now my husband is a fisherman he is a scuba diver he has listen he's a spear fisherman that man is made of water okay he would know a whale from something he's never seen before he spends a majority of his time on the water and he joins the water so It's very degrading to put down that these gentlemen would totally misidentify this creature as whale behavior.

Okay.

A misidentified marine animal.

Pop, pop, possibly.

I'm, again, stuttered on that one.

Whatever.

Or let's just put it out there.