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Additional-large,
even giant-sized, eels are ceaselessly cited as potential identities for all
method of freshwater and maritime monsters world wide, together with Britain’s very personal
Nessie. Down by means of the years, I’ve documented a good few of those reviews,
from such disparate, far-flung places as North America, New Zealand, and the
Mascarene Islands. Now, one other location, Vietnam, can apparently be added to
that listing.

Longstanding
Loch Ness Monster researcher Steve Feltham hosts a really attention-grabbing and
informative public Fb group entitled ‘Steve Feltham, Nessie Hunter,
Interactive Collective’, which acts as a discussion board for sharing related data
related to this pre-eminent cryptid. On 13 October 2022, group member Mike
Gavan from New Zealand posted the next fascinating account of what could
have been a very gigantic eel encountered underwater off Vietnam by certainly one of his
buddies:

I’ve simply had a go to from an older good friend of
mine, Tim.

Tim was a deep sea diver within the Nineteen Seventies, working
from a bell at a median depth of 200 m [656 ft], his work was within the space of
undersea restoration, upkeep for the oil trade world broad.

Round 1974, Tim was diving on a restoration job
at 220 m [722 ft] off the coast of Nha Trang, Vietnam.

His job was to get better a size of particular
function ducting that had been misplaced overboard, he was to find it, tie it and
await a winch.

About 10 minutes into his dive from the bell
Tim noticed what he believed was a part of the ducting and proceeded in the direction of it, [but]
as he acquired shut sufficient to the touch it he realised that it was not ducting!

“It was gentle and felt like an eel or fish,
the girth was round 6 ft, after I did really contact it a big head trying
like a snake or reptile appeared in my lamps, I contacted the highest and requested if
they have been seeing what I used to be seeing as I had a digicam hooked up to my dive swimsuit,
sure was the reply. ”Go to the bell now Tim, repeat, go to the bell now!” was
their reply, I estimated the creature to be over 100ft, probably 120-130 ft in
size, I turned and headed bell asap, which wasn’t shortly attributable to my dive swimsuit
and equipment, it was terrifying and I by no means regarded again, I’ve seen big sharks,
unusual lights and many others however that snake factor was the weirdest factor I ever noticed in my
tenure as a deep sea diver!”

Tim is now 78 years previous, sincere and
reliable & additionally sound of thoughts.

He lives on a again nation farm of 4000 acres
in solitude now.

This was relayed to me actually 2 hours in the past.

The
creature that instantly got here to thoughts after I learn this report was a moray eel
or muraenid, of which there are over 200 species present in tropical and
temperate waters worldwide, usually in coastal areas, and are famously
serpentine in look. Nevertheless, the longest identified species, the slender big
moray Strophidion sathete, is ‘solely’
as much as 13 ft lengthy, a far cry certainly from the immense size cited by eyewitness
Tim for the elongate entity that he allegedly encountered at very shut vary (and
even permitting for probably a sizeable diploma of over-estimation on Tim’s half due
to the acute shock and worry that he’d clearly skilled).

However
may there be distinctive people far larger in measurement than any recorded by
science current incognito in our oceans, their enormous dimensions buoyed by their
liquid surroundings? If that’s the case, they might certainly be veritable monsters. I’m wondering
what occurred to the movie that Tim’s digicam recorded of this creature, as
considered by his above-surface group? That would definitely be nicely value a watch!