“SEA-SERPENT” AGAIN

Shannon News, 1 June 1926, Page 4

“SEA-SERPENT” AGAIN

CANADIAN CAPTAIN’S REPORT. SKETCHES of the monster. Seafaring men are already identifying the sea serpent reported to have been seen off the coast of British Columbia a fortnight ago with One seen in the same vicinity eighteen months ago ,says the Vancouver correspondent of the Herald, writing on April 7. Captain House, of the Canadian Government fishing patrol, was on the way north to Prince Rupert and had reached a p'oint near Hecate Straits, -which separate Queen Charlotte Islands from the mainland, when he saw the monster . He is an officer in whom his fellows place high trust. They say if Captain House said he saw a sea serpent, he saw one; that is enough for them. He had plenty of time to observe the sea serpent, and made a drawing of it, in three positions —as it emerged from the water, when it was most out* of the water, and when it was slipping back intb the depths.

The following signed statement from Captain House has appeared in the Vancouver Province Newspaper: —“I have prepared three sketches of the sea serpent sighted off Cape Bridge, opposite Wright Sound, at 1 2.45 p.m. on March 16, coming toward the south end of Grenville Channel. The head was about 181 n. wide and possibly 2ft 6in long. The thing remained erect for about half a minute, and then disappeared spirally, as it had come. When submerged it churned up the water, and left a wake for a long time, like a school of porpoise, moving out to sea, whence it had--come. Captain House remarked that the sun was shining from the clouds at the time ,and gave the monster a greenish-gold appearance. He said he was familiar with most sea creatures, and was positive it was nothing he had seen before. It had the appearI ance of a telephone pole, as it raised its head above the water. The capture, last week, of a ser-pent-like fish at Powell River, lends colour to the belief that it is the young of Captain House’s sea serpent. The Powell River Company have l~t it on ice, and are sending photographs to the Fisheries Department. It is five feet long, with a head like that of a wolf, about the size of thp body of an English pug dog. The end of the body tapers to a point, and skin-dike fins at the side extend the entire length.