From ancient times, humans have been making long journeys to distant countries through oceans, and during these voyages, they occasionally encountered giant sea creatures, most of which were giant snakes or sea serpents. The sightings of these giant snakes have been described in many travelogues from ancient times to modern times. The sighting of a sea monster becomes extremely difficult to dispute when the ship's captain as well as all crew members claim to have seen it. There have probably been many such incidents in the past when these Sea Serpents were seen, and one of which was quite shocking which we are going to tell you today.
On 6 August 1848, the Royal Navy's warship HMS Daedalus was heading towards St Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. The captain of the ship, McQuhae, described the encounter in the official report. It was five o'clock in the evening, and because of the dark clouds, the sunlight was a little less. At that time, the ship was about 300 miles away from the coast of Namibia when suddenly they spotted a creature in the water. It was a tall creature whose height was estimated by the captain and the crew to be at least 60 feet. It looked like an enormous serpent with its head about four feet above the water.
This serpent was so close to the ship that according to the captain, even if it were someone I knew, I should have easily recognized his features with the naked eye. According to him the skin of that creature was dark brown, and yellowish-white near the neck. It swam parallel to their ship for about 20 minutes and had a very high swimming speed. The crew members had also not seen any such creature in their lifetime before, due to which they started making different assumptions when they saw it. But everyone agreed on one thing for sure, It was a serpent.
Mr. Drummond, who was present in the crew, also wrote his experience about this creature in his personal diary which was published in the year 1997. There were similarities in Drummond's diary and captain's report, with both of them believing that it was a serpent. According to both, the head of that creature was about 4 feet above the water and it remained in view for around twenty minutes. Drummond himself had made a drawing of this creature in his diary, seeing which all the crew members agreed that this was the creature. After this encounter, people gave different theories to describe this sighting logically and it remained a mystery as the captain did not have any evidence.
But in the same year, a story was published in the London Times newspaper, the story being a sighted description by the captain of another ship. He revealed that recently their ship was attacked by a sea serpent, but in return, they fired at the serpent, injuring the snake as well, causing it to disappear underwater away from the ship. According to him, the serpent was about a hundred feet long and he described the head of this creature in the same words as Captain McQuhae and his crew did.
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