Reported off the coast of Massachussetts on several occasions over a couple of centuries, with the most detailed sightings in 1817.

http://www.unmuseum.org/glserpent.htm

Nessie has to spend her holidays somewhere, why not there?

To me the wonder is that there aren't so many more fantastic sea monsters.

I visited The Bounty when she was in Oslo last year. Not the real ship of course but the fully functional replica built for the Brando / Howard film in 1960 or so. To walk from prow to stern took 25 paces, and in that space a crew of 37 men lived together on the original without a chance of escape for months on end. And then I learnt that the replica, in order to accommodate cameras etc had been built one third bigger than the original!

I swear - if I had been in that crow's nest I would have been seeing weirder things than serpents!

Nordmann, you'll be telling us next that you don't believe in the Kraken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken

Trike.

30 July 1915, 9 miles south west of the Fastnet Rock, the German submarine U-28 torpedoes and sinks the freighter SS Iberian. Iberian sinks quickly and her boilers explode deep beneath the water throwing up debris. The explosion also throws up what U-28's captain, Freiherr Georg-Gunther von Forstner and the bridge crew describe as a 20 metre long aquatic crocodile, with 4 webbed flippers. The beast was only in sight for a few seconds before sinking back beneath the waves.





The creature described by the crew, does bear a resemblance to a Mosasaur