sea serpent
Noun
Meaning
Any marine snake. See Sea snake.
A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured.
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R. Binns The Loch Ness Mystery Solved pp 19–27 The accounts reached the media, which described a "monster fish", "sea serpent", or "dragon" Daily Mirror, 11 August 1933 "Loch Ness, which is becoming famous as the supposed abode of a dragon..
On October 31, 1983, about 2:00 p.m., five members of a construction crew saw a 100-foot-long sea serpent off Stinson Beach, which is just north of San Francisco, California.
The ocean is inhabited by the great sea serpent Jörmungandr (Miðgarðsormr), who is so huge that he encircles the world entirely, grasping his own tail.
On February 5, 1985, twin brothers Bill and Bob Clark sighted a 60+ foot long sea serpent in San Francisco Bay that crashed onto a submerged rocky ledge only 20 yards away from where they were sitting in their car.
Ratto began looking at the sea serpent when it was 100 yards offshore and less than a quarter of a mile away.
The "Great Sea Serpent" according to Hans Egede Maned sea serpent from Bishop Erik Pontoppidan's 1755 work Natural History of Norway The Gloucester sea serpent of 1817 A hairy sea serpent Albert Koch's convert "Hydrarchos" fossil skeleton from 1845.