07-23-2003, 03:50 AM
Until I moved to Colorado, I always thought Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, only supposedly lived in the Northwest and the upper states bordering Canada. I recently found out that there have been many sightings in-state, mostly in the southwest regions. According to "eye witnesses", Bigfoot is toothy, roars loud enough to scare a lion and smells worse than a skunk. It supposedly has attempted to kidnap several women over the years, unsuccessfully I might add.
While in the Navy, my ship hit something in 3,000 ft of water, that showed up on sonar and was unidentifiable by normal means. Whales have a distinque sound which is picked up by sonar and would be the only seafaring creature, that we know of, that would be big enough to shake the entire ship, all 553' of her. It later dove out of sonar range, down.
Later on, I read about a "something" that washed ashore on Tasmania. It was 30' across, covered with fur and weighed close to 30 tons. Everyone assumed that it was a land animal, until they discovered the gills. After careful examination, it was declared to have drifted south from colder regions, possibly the Gulf of Alaska or the Bering Sea, maybe even from under the Polar Ice Cap. It was classified as an unknown species.
During WW2, more than one ship was attacked by something big enough to almost swamp a destroyer. It came from the bottom of the sea, somewhere near the Mariana Trench (36,000' and counting). Did depth charges awaken something? Nobody would say, the matter was turned over to Naval Intelligence and classified Top Secret, never to be heard about again.
While trying to discover the origin of the solar system is great, I firmly believe that we should be spending those trillions of dollars exploring the last frontier -- the sea. There have been just too many reports from reliable witnesses about strange and unknown critters breaking the surface. Too many to ignore. There are 7,000 species of ants. How many different species of marine life are there?
The first time I put out to sea, in January of 1964, I looked out and all I could see was water (I'd never seen an ocean before) and commented on it. A seasoned Chief was standing close and said, "yea, and that's just the top of it."
johnin colorado
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While in the Navy, my ship hit something in 3,000 ft of water, that showed up on sonar and was unidentifiable by normal means. Whales have a distinque sound which is picked up by sonar and would be the only seafaring creature, that we know of, that would be big enough to shake the entire ship, all 553' of her. It later dove out of sonar range, down.
Later on, I read about a "something" that washed ashore on Tasmania. It was 30' across, covered with fur and weighed close to 30 tons. Everyone assumed that it was a land animal, until they discovered the gills. After careful examination, it was declared to have drifted south from colder regions, possibly the Gulf of Alaska or the Bering Sea, maybe even from under the Polar Ice Cap. It was classified as an unknown species.
During WW2, more than one ship was attacked by something big enough to almost swamp a destroyer. It came from the bottom of the sea, somewhere near the Mariana Trench (36,000' and counting). Did depth charges awaken something? Nobody would say, the matter was turned over to Naval Intelligence and classified Top Secret, never to be heard about again.
While trying to discover the origin of the solar system is great, I firmly believe that we should be spending those trillions of dollars exploring the last frontier -- the sea. There have been just too many reports from reliable witnesses about strange and unknown critters breaking the surface. Too many to ignore. There are 7,000 species of ants. How many different species of marine life are there?
The first time I put out to sea, in January of 1964, I looked out and all I could see was water (I'd never seen an ocean before) and commented on it. A seasoned Chief was standing close and said, "yea, and that's just the top of it."
johnin colorado
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