"I was astonished to see a thick body with flippers, a long neck, a snakelike head with two eyes looking right at us. It looked like a big lizard with flippers - it had two sets of them."
American Navy officer Captain Marvin McCamis, while accompanied by Captain Bill Rainnie, was in the famous deep-sea submersible, Alvin in July 1965. Sent down to check on the listening array Artemis, they were in a very deep area in the Bahamas, known as the Tongue of the Ocean. According to McCamis, the submersible was already about 1500 meters (5000 feet) underwater, when they descended another 90 meters, (300 feet) following a cable that spanned a crevasse.
Noticing movement, McCamis first thought that the sub was drifting along the cable, but realized that it was the object that was moving. Swinging around the submersible in an arc, he observed what he first thought was a utility pole. In Charles Berlitz's "Without a Trace," an overall collection of strange encounters in the "Bermuda Triangle" area, he describes his encounter, which visually, sounds like a plesiosaur, an extinct marine reptile commonly used as an explanation for sea monster sightings.
"...I was astonished to see a thick body with flippers, a long neck, a snakelike head with two eyes looking right at us. It looked like a big lizard with flippers - it had two sets of them. Then it swam upwards with its back turned before we could get the cameras angled. They were set to photograph 15 to 25 feet in front of the submarine and the thing had already swum out of the camera angle but was still around."
The shock of his encounter compelled McCamis to return to the surface, where, with a lack of proof for his sighting, he was laughed off the deck by other officers. He entered the sighting in the wet log, but he believed it had been deleted by the Navy and thus did not appear in the final log. McCamis claimed that in 300-400 undersea dives, he had never seen anything similar.
McCamis, who died in 2004 and is thus sadly unavailable for further interviews, was a highly respected and decorated officer in the Navy. He received a Meritorious service award in 1966 for recovering a hydrogen bomb lost in the Mediterranean. From 1966 to 1977, he held the position of research associate in the Navy. Adding to his credibility is the fact that he also wrote several scientific publications. He also worked with Bob Ballard, a professor of oceanography who worked with National Geographic and discovered the Titanic in 1985.
Bill Rainnie, McCamis' companion, was a similarly respected Navy officer, and just as experienced as McCamis in deep sea diving. He was also a recipient of the Meritorious Service Award. Sadly, he passed away in 1985.
NOTE: What do you think that this aquatic creature was? Lon
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