Giant Sargasso Sea Serpent

This is the best single sea serpent story that I have seen and the duration certainly provided excellent opportunity to clearly collect data.  Thus unless it can be shown that this was a complete fabrication it must be taken seriously.  It is noteworthy that it did not evade engine noise.

We have extensive marine attachments on this huge creature, suggesting that it spends ample time resting on the sea bottom a lot closer to land than we think or perhaps it spends a lot of time in the Sargasso Sea where it would be well suited.

These active antennae are particularly unexpected as they appear to be managed.  They could serve to separate sea weed out of the way as one is nosing through the Sargasso Sea.  This is a natural and likely necessary adaptation for the Sargasso.

All of a sudden I have filled in the blank. The sea serpent may still operate in the deep but that is no longer necessary.  What we now have is a creature that evolved from the giant snakes into the sea perhaps during the era when the Earth was much warmer and those seas were filled with floating plant life of which the Sargasso is a survivor.

Thus our giant sea serpent population, like our eels, spends their lives nosing around the floating masses of sea weeds in the Sargasso or possibly also the giant kelp beds in the Pacific.  They migrate to deep northern lakes in order to access nesting beds of decaying vegetation such as peat moss.  Thus they have been encountered in the Gulf Stream.

I now have a pretty complete picture of the creature’s lifeway and now know just where to look assiduously.  It is certainly a great place to hide and it is obviously a strong swimmer.  Those old maps now look good.

Sea Monster Tails Steamship From Jamaica to Cape Hatteras

 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2013

http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2013/11/sea-monster-tails-steamship-from.html

The following old newspaper account offers more questions than answers:

THIS SEA SERPENT WAS "ALL LIT UP"

Trenton Evening Times, Trenton New Jersey - 18 March 1908

Phosphorescent Monster Ate Bananas

“March 13. At 8 p.m., Thursday, 22° 06′ north, longitude 74° 21′ west. One half mile off starboard bow sighted strange marine monster. It approached and followed ship all night. Friday at 9 a.m.monster crossed our bows. Passengers in a panic. Reduced speed to five knots”

– Extract from the log of the Admiral Farragut.

Sitting in the doorway of his cabin, collarless and in his shirtsleeves, Captain Mader of the fruit steamer Admiral Farragut, which arrived this week from Port Antonio [Jamaica], told the story:

“We picked the sea serpent up — or rather the monster picked us up — late Thursday night,” said he. “I was on the bridge when one of the passengers, an elderly man, rushed up and excitedly called my attention to a phosphorescent light several miles astern. At first I thought it was a new submarine boat. As it came nearer we played the searchlight on it and could see that it was some strange sea monster.“It seemed about 120 feet long and threshed its way through the rough sea at a fearful speed. All night long it followed the vessel and during that time most of the passengers and crew remained on deck. The phosphorescent glow of the monsterlighted up the sea within a radius of fifty feet.

“On Friday morning about breakfast time the serpent swam within thirty feet of the starboard side. The creature resembled a huge boa constrictor, with the exception that its body was green. From its sides streamed seaweed and other marine growth.

“The monster raised its head several feet above the water. It had huge eyes projecting from the top of its head and two green horns that projected upward nearly five feet. The horns resembled large antennae and moved about continuously.

“Three times the serpent crossed our bows and fearing to run it down, I signalled the engineer to reduce speed to five knots an hour.

“Some of the persons on board thought the monster was hungry and we threw over several sacks of peanuts and a few bunches of bananas. When we arrived off Cape Hatteras late Friday the monster circled around and swam south….”

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Here is another detailed version of the story: 

“We picked the sea serpent up – or rather the monsterpicked us up – late one night,” said he. “I was on the bridge when one of the passengers, an elderly man, rushed up and excitedly called my attention to a phosphorescent light several miles astern. At first I thought it was a new submarine boat. As it came nearer we played the searchlight on it and could see that it was some strange sea monster. 

“It seemed about 120 feet long and threshed its way through the rough sea at a fearful speed. All night long it followed the vessel and during that time most of the passengers and crew remained on deck. The phosphorescent glow of the monster lighted up the sea within a radius of fifty feet. What a “fearful speed” might be is unknown to me, but I would assume that it might be faster, at least, than the speed of the ship. The fact that the sea was lit up to a radius of 50 feet indicates that either the plankton were disturbed beyond the “sea serpent” by some means or that it possessed an extremely bright, artificial light source. 

“On the next morning about breakfast time, the serpent swam within thirty feet of the starboard side. The creature resembled a huge boa constrictor, with the exception that its body was green. From its side streamed seaweed and other marine growth. Green is a color commonly found in water UFO cases. The snake-like movements of the object could be attributed to a cylindrical object with the water’s movement distorting its shape into that of a snake. 

“The monster raised its head several feet above the water. It had huge eyes projecting from the top of its head and two green horns that projected upward nearly five feet. The horns resembled large antennae and moved about continually. Five foot horns that resemble antennae are one thing, but to have them “moved about continually” seems more like a mechanical operation. 

“Three times the serpent crossed our bows and fearing to run it down, I signaled the engineer to reduce speed to five knots an hour. 

“Some of the persons on board thought the monster was hungry, and we threw over several sacks of peanuts and a few bunches of bananas. When we arrived off Cape Hatteras late that day the monster circled around and swam south.” -Oakland [California] Tribune, March 28, 1908.