Sea Serpents - Jacqui - Fourth Hour

There are many mysteries left in the world and one of those mysteries consists of Sea Serpents. This creature is and has been commonly talked about since biblical times, by sailors secretly afraid of the deep, and by surfers eager to get in to the water. But even though they are “commonly sited” by people all over the world we are left with the not so simple to answer question “Are Sea Serpents real?” This Cryptid has proof both for and against it (like most cryptid’s.) I would have to say that they are real based on my following information.

First of it is easy to say you have seen a “sea serpent” just go to the nearest computer and type up “weird fish washed ashore”. Oarfish are fish that could live up to 70 feet deep but have been observed in 20 feet deep water. They are more commonly found washed on the beech than observed in there natural habitat. This creature is often referred to as a sea serpent but there is a problem with that. Oarfish look like fish, they have very visible scales fins and gills; but the most common description of a sea serpent is that they have smooth grayish-blue grayish- green skin with and are larger in size. Subjecting that the “sea serpents more or less mammal like a seal or wail.

But these information doses leave us with more questions than answers. If there is a sea serpent and the creature is so large than why is it that we haven’t proved the creature to be real or not. Well the best answer for that is the creature has to be really rare or in waters rarely visited. But lets continue with the oar fish and oarfish isn’t a rare fish but it is a creature rarely seen alive in the wild. Why?? Because the oarfish lives its life (in a supposed) solitude life. The creature (the oar fish) is said to span but we don’t know much about there mating habits.

All reported sightings of the Sea Serpents have the same general description “a Large creature with smooth grayish skin that came to the surface and left (sometimes violently sometimes non-violently).I believe that the ocean is a large enough place for there to be sea serpents, an I believe that there are enough places on the bed of the ocean for there to be undiscovered creatures and places. So “is the sea serpent real?” well I would have to say yes but the over all decision is up to you.

References

Figure 1. 3/8/09 / Unmusseum.com sea snake http://www.unmuseum.org/seasnake.htm
Creature of The Deep Seahttp://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/oarfish.html 3/6/09 / Find A Fish
http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts/fish/rglesne.htm 3/6/09