What are the records about sea monsters?

For hundreds of years, books, newspapers and magazines have often carried sensational news about sea monsters, but people have never captured such monsters. Although people have spent a lot of money to investigate and search for it, and even used the most advanced technological equipment in the world today, the mysterious sea monster remains a mystery to this day.

According to statistics, nearly a thousand people have witnessed monsters in the sea in the past 300 years. Sightings have been made in North America, the United Kingdom, the coast of Norway, near the Azores, West Africa, the coast of northern France, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and even in the Mediterranean.

Witnesses described the image of this animal as having a big head, a long neck, four fins and a crocodile tail.

On July 31, 1915, a German submarine sank a British ship off the coast of Northern Ireland. In the war years, such an attack was not surprising. The strange thing is: when the British ship exploded, a crocodile-like monster flew out of the water, then "plopped" into the sea and disappeared without a trace in front of the surprised German sailors.

In December 1947, unusual news came from the Greek ocean freighter "Sante Clara", which was killed on the route from New York to Cartagena. A sea animal unknown to people, they called it a "sea snake". According to eyewitnesses: The widest part of the head of the killed monster is about 2.5 feet, the diameter of the head is about 2 feet, the head is about 5 feet long, and there is a very long neck. The whole body is cylindrical, with a diameter of Up to 5 feet long, with a dark brown coat and no hair. Unfortunately, scientists are still the same as before, just listening to what others say.

On December 1, 1959, fishermen in Durban were fishing in the high seas. Suddenly, more than 20 15-meter-long monsters appeared in front of them. The fishermen were frightened and panicked. They abandoned their fishing nets and desperately fled to the shore in their boats. This is not terrible. What is thrilling is what happened to Americans Bright and Richie in 1966. In order to create an amazing career, they decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean. One night in July, at around two o'clock at night, Richier suddenly grabbed Bright's shoulders in panic and saw a long, shiny band appearing in the phosphorescent waves. It broke through the waves and raised the head of an animal it had never seen before from the water. A pair of protruding eyes, flashing green light, stared coldly at the dazed person. The animal slowly swam and turned. Head on a long neck.

Another regrettable incident is that the Japanese fishing boat "Toyo Maru" used a trawl net from a depth of 300 meters while fishing in the waters near Christchurch Port in the southern part of New Zealand Island. Caught a dead monster. This monster is nearly 10 meters long and weighs more than two tons. It has a long neck and long tail, four large flippers, a small, flat head, many teeth in its mouth, and a crocodile-like tail. This was obviously an animal that no one had ever seen before. On the way back, the monster's corpse gave off an unpleasant stench. The crew tried all kinds of methods, but they couldn't stand it. The stench made the crew breathless, and they were finally forced to send the precious monster back to the sea.

Japanese scientists were extremely disappointed. All they got from the crew were color photos of dead monsters and related conditions. After studying these photos, Japanese scholars believe that this long-necked monster may be a descendant of the plesiosaur that lived 160 million years ago; while French paleontologists believe that this is a long-extinct giant seal that lived approximately 20 million years ago.

Many scientists suspect that this is the body of a semi-rotten shark or small whale, not a monster at all.

So far, there are still different opinions on sea monsters.

Some people believe that theoretically no type of animal or plant can exist alone in the world. Once the number of organisms is reduced to a certain critical number, it will inevitably lead to extinction. Therefore, it is unlikely that there are any sea monsters in the ocean. People say that encountering sea monsters is probably an illusion.

In this regard, Canadian scientist Lesi and others proposed an explanation after many experiments: Under normal circumstances, the temperature above the sea surface is hotter and colder. If a stream of extremely cold air passes over the sea surface, the temperature will become colder. As it heats up, it creates a mirage effect, and protruding objects on the sea surface will multiply in size. At this time, people on the boat will see this expansion phenomenon if they are no more than 2 meters above the sea surface. It is this optical effect that causes visual errors to people, causing people to regard ordinary sea animals, such as walruses, dolphins or cetaceans, as huge monsters. Of course, this explanation has not yet been tested in practice.

But some people believe that the ocean still has many mysteries for humans, and we cannot exclude that there are some little-known mysterious things. For example, in the late 1930s, people captured a living marine creature, the coelacanth, which existed 300 million years ago but became extinct 70 million years ago, in the southeastern waters of South Africa. No scholar believed it. It was not until the 1950s that people caught 15 more live coelacanths in the same sea area, and people no longer doubted the existence of this prehistoric strange fish. They also believe that the number of such sea monsters is not too large and that they live in deep sea areas or areas where nets are not often used for fishing. Because their hearing and vision are well developed, they move very carefully. They always avoid boats and fishing tools, and are good at being nocturnal, taking a long time (several hours) to breathe. Those seen by people may be old or infirm among them. They were discovered by people only after they had undergone drastic changes in their habits and lost their functions.

Of course, any judgment made by scientists must be confirmed. Therefore, we look forward to the day when the true identity of the sea monster is revealed to the world.