A MONSTER OF THE DEEP.
Captain Holst, of the Blackwnll, - reports, says the Lyttelton Times , that on Thursday, whilst on a trip to Okain’s Bay, his craft became becalmed about one and a-half miles off the Lyttelton Heads, and one or two of the crew amused themselves by fishing. The water was smooth and still, when one of the hands noticed a huge, blackish marine monster in the water, which, from its size, they at first thought was ft whale. It, however, proved to be a shark of the species known as “blue,” and as the huge fish sailed slowly round, the ketch, his nose being at the boat’s mizzen chains and his tail reaching to the bows, his length was roughly guessed at 30ft. After satisfying his curiosity, the shark slowly disappeared. Even in the tropical seas of the West indies, where sharks attain their largest size, old sailors tell ns this would be reckoned a monster.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1126, 17 December 1883, Page 2
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