German naval officer along with his crew witnesses a massive crocodile like creature erupt from an explosion of a sunken British sub.
I've always liked this account because unlike a lot of 'credible' witness (police, public officials, pilots) sightings of the paranormal today, a German submarine captain in the middle of world war 1 would have been absolutely crucified for making something like this up.
He very plainly reported it in his official log of the battle that sunk the British sub. The man had just killed over 60 people.
He more than likely was in no way joking around or making wild exaggerations
http://www.cryptopia.us/site/2010/11/u-28-abomination-atlantic-ocean/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_U-28_(Germany)
>>17733462
Dunno.. The largest known prehistoric relation of the modern crocodiles is the sarcosuchus imperator, which grew to roughly 12 metres long. Fossils have also been found only in africa, and the british cargo ship, not sub, that was sunk was sunk somewhere near the coast of Norway.
Kraken, anyone?
>>17733495
Then it must have been a sea dragon.
>>17733495
>Dunno..
Then don't speak.
wow /x/ is a bunch of autists
>>17733855
Good observational skills seinfield
Sea monsters are most likely out of anything we talk about here. We know so little about evolutionary history in general, and FAR FAR less about the evolutionary history of the sea. Most of our knowledge comes from the dried up shallow seas that we live on today. There's no telling what kind of crazy shit existed/exists in the real depths of the ocean, and we realistically have no way to find out. We can't go on digs at the bottom of the sea, and we can't monitor any significant portion of it.
>>17733462
I thought OP's story was just a bunch of bollocks, but apparently it dates back to this issue of "Popular Mechanics" from 1934. It was a nice read.
>>17733969
>>17733974
Here's the paragraph talking about the incident.
>>17733880
Totally agree with you on this buddy, like, we know fuck all about deep sea life, really...
>>17733880
The pressure at the bottom of the ocean is too great for anything larger than a crab to grow.
>>17735375
yea thats like common knowledge, which is why this motherfucker looks all retarded when you remove the pressure which is usually holding everything in place
https://www.google.dk/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Faboveaverage.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F08%2Fmdwmwr3b.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Faboveaverage.com%2F9-reasons-blobfish-worlds-best-boyfriend%2F&docid=SIpkL3e9D8BV2M&tbnid=imT14qH_VQSKfM%3A&w=1799&h=1200&client=firefox-b&bih=1063&biw=1920&ved=0ahUKEwjJ58iUmPbMAhXFjSwKHYeLBdcQMwg1KAUwBQ&iact=mrc&uact=8
>>17735375
If that's true then why wasn't James Cameron allowed to release the footage he recorded at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?
>>17735426
Uhm he did faggot?
>>17735493
No he didn't. He hyped it for months, and then just never mentioned it again
>>17735504
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGzaUiutuRk
>being this retarded
>>17733462
it was a blue whale
>>17735375
Tell that to the six gill shark. They found one eating off a whale carcass on a deep dive not too long ago. A lot of the creatures living in high pressure simply have more cartilage than bone, or are all cartilage.
>>17733462
pliosaur?
>>17737725
Or mosasaurus.
Or basilosaurus.
>>17733851
>he says he doesnnt know
>he then develops and gives information
>"HURR IF U DONT KNOW YOU DONNT SPEAK XDDDDD"
god fucking damnit just kill yourself you bloody useless shitstain
Could be a mesosaurus
>>17738015
>1 meter long
>became extinct in the early Permian
Yeah, makes a lot of sense.
>>17733462
A 28' crocodile was killed in 1957, but more than likely it was a whale, and the explosion caused visual impedance, or maybe it's skin was mottled by the explosion itself(?)
Interesting piece of trivia.
