Historical fact
/kloc-since the 20th century, with the development of modern zoology, the absurd legend of sea monsters has gradually disappeared. But there are still some reports that deserve our attention:
186 1 year165438+1On October 20th, the French warship "arreton" was on its way from Cadiz, Spain to Tenerife Island, when it met a sea monster with a length of only 5-6 meters and a long antenna of 2 meters. Captain Ciel later wrote: I think it was this big octopus that caused a lot of controversy, and many people thought it was fiction. Ciel and the crew put it in the middle with a harpoon and wrapped a rope around its tail. But the monster waved wildly, broke the harpoon and ran away. There is only one piece of meat weighing about 40 Jin left on the rope.
1978165438+1On 2 October, three fishermen in Newfoundland, Canada, found a huge marine animal stranded on the beach because of low tide. Fishermen say it is 7 meters long, and some horn hands are more than 1 1 meter long. The diameter of the sucker on the horn hand is 10 cm, and the eyes are full of faces. The fisherman hooked it with a hook, and the monster struggled for a while and soon died.
Belgian zoologist Heifmans collected and analyzed 587 reports of finding sea monsters from 1639 ~ 1966, excluding those that may be wrong, deliberately deceptive and unclear, and found 358 cases credible. He entered all the details in these reports into the computer for analysis and got nine different sea monsters. Although there are still exaggerated elements in these reports, at least one of them has been confirmed by the sea troll that people think is "impossible": the king squid.
During the period of 65438+1970s, there were several cases in which the remains of giant squid washed up on the coast of Canada, and at least one of them was still alive. With the help of these entities, people finally know something about giant squid.
The king squid lives in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It is about 20 meters long and weighs about 2 ~ 3 tons. It is the largest invertebrate in the world. Its temperament is extremely fierce, it feeds on fish and invertebrates, and it can fight with giant whales. It is often reported abroad that the king squid fights with the sperm whale. According to records, once a king squid was witnessed holding a sperm whale tightly with its thick horn hand and sucker, and the sperm whale tried its best to bite the tail of the king squid. Two behemoths in the sea rolled violently, stirring up turbid waves, and then both sank to the bottom of the water, not knowing where to go. Most of this kind of struggle is that sperm whales win, but there have also been cases where the king squid caught the whale's nostrils with its tentacles and suffocated the whale.
From this point of view, the sea monsters encountered by people in the two years mentioned above, 186 1 and 1878, are definitely king squid. How big is the biggest king squid? This question is difficult to answer. People once measured a squid with a length of 17.07 meters, and the diameter of the sucker on its tentacles was 9.5 cm. However, from the captured sperm whale, a sucker scar with a diameter of more than 40 cm was found. It is speculated that the king squid fighting this whale may be as long as 60 meters. If there is such a big king squid, it is not far from the legendary Norwegian sea monster.
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All kinds of water monsters are mentioned in fairy tales of ancient countries. Throughout the ages, thousands of people have claimed to have witnessed the water monsters with their own eyes and given them many magical and beautiful names. Such as "sea dragon", "sea snake", "sea giraffe" and "sea swan", are there really water monsters or are people creating new myths?
1865438+In August 2007, more than 300 people saw a "basilisk" in a harbor in Massachusetts, USA. Its head is like the head of a tortoise, 40 meters long, half as thick as a beer barrel, and its body is dark brown. Later, several workers saw the monster again while fishing in a small boat. One of them took out a pistol and fired at the monster 20 meters away, hitting its head. Then the monster disappeared into the sea.
On August 6th, 1848, 500 kilometers from the southern tip of Africa, the British cruiser "Dadalus" met a monster. Its head was 2 meters long, like a turtle's head, with a dark blue neck and a gray body. There was something like horse hair under its neck, and its body was on the water 18 meters. A month later, the American sailboat "Dapney" also met a snake-shaped glans monster here, with a body of 30 meters long and glowing eyes. Captain Hudson ordered to shoot at it, and the monster seemed to feel the danger of his life. At the moment of shooting, it dived into the water and escaped.
1In June, 897, the French gunboat "Affara Shi" met two big snakes in Alolo Bay. These snakes are 20 meters long and 2-3 meters thick. The gunboat sailed to 600 meters and fired, and the serpent entered the water. The following February 15, the ship met the two snakes again in the same sea area. The gunboat rushed at full speed to the snakes, fired at a distance of 300 meters, but missed. One of the snakes that got into the water actually came out from the stern, so you can imagine the panic of the crew at that time.
19021On the morning of October 28th, the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa was calm and the British cargo ship "Ford Salzbury" sailed smoothly. Suddenly, a crew member saw a giant slowly emerging from the sea, shaped like a cigar, about 30 feet in diameter and 200 feet long. The kind crew shouted to it, "Let's help you, shall we?" But the monster was ungrateful and silently sank into the sea.
1in April, 904, the French gunboat "Desi" docked at Arong Bay near Haiphong Port in Vietnam. One day, the sailors witnessed a huge sea monster, which surfaced 30 meters, covered with soft black skin and dotted with marble spots. The 5-meter-long head has large scales, much like the head of a giant turtle. The water column it sprayed was as high as15m, and it sank into the sea at a distance of 35m from the gunboat.
On July 30th, 2005, the German submarine Y-28 sank a British ship off the coast of Ireland. When the submarine bombarded the water, a strange giant crocodile jumped out of the sea, appeared several times in a row and then disappeared into the sea. The unexpected visitor surprised the German sailors present.
1965438+In September 2007, 70 nautical miles southeast of Iceland's coast, an auxiliary cruiser almost collided with a monster. This monster is black all over, with a body length of 18m and a head as big as a cow's head, but it has no ears or horns. Its forehead is decorated with white stripes. Its fin is over 10cm, thin and blunt, like a triangle. The neck is 6 meters long and moves like a snake. Once turned around, the neck becomes a semicircle.
1in the autumn of 934, the old sailor Akkad's ship sailed from Norway to the sea in Greenland. One day, he saw a monster from nearby. His head was small, his neck was slender, and his body was like a big barrel, winding and rotating flexibly, much like a snake. Akkad also drew a sketch of this monster, which caused a sensation after publication. People who were surprised named this monster "Sea Snake".
1947 12, the liner "Santa Clara" sailed from new york to Cartagena and killed a monster. Its head is 0.75m wide, 0.6m thick and1.5m long. Its cylinder diameter is 1.5 m and its neck length is 0.45 m. It is dark brown and hairless. Unfortunately, no one thought of leaving a tooth or anything.
1965 65438+1October 12 At noon, a New Zealand military plane was passing over the Kebala Bay along the coastline. The captain suddenly found a strange object in the shallows, with a length of 100 feet and a maximum diameter of about 15 feet. There is no protruding part that a submarine should have. The monster swam south at a depth of 40 feet.
1966, Americans Brett and Ricky decided to row across the Atlantic Ocean to set a new record. One night in July, green and phosphorescence suddenly flashed, and Ricky grabbed Brett's shoulder in panic. Brett looked in the direction of his finger and was shocked: there was a long neck in the water with a "bull's head" on it, but there were no horns or ears. It bulging eyes, aggressive green light, coldly looking at them. They almost fainted.
1984 65438+ 10 At dawn on a Sunday, Jim Thompson, a Canadian mechanical engineer, went fishing in a rubber dinghy 8 kilometers away from Vancouver. Suddenly, a monster appeared about 6 1 m away from him. It is about 6 meters long and 0.6 meters wide. Its neck is light brown, with a short horn like a giraffe, drooping ears and a slightly pointed dark mouth. The monster seems both curious and shy. He seemed surprised when he felt that someone was watching him. He swam quickly, twisting up and down, and his movements were very agile.