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Discovery Channel - Original Air Date: 7/19/11
Now, I don't watch Deadliest Catch, so I don't know if this is how these guys usually act, but their expedition seems irreverent at best. Methods include huge fishing lines with barrels as bobbers. They start at the mouth of a river, catch nothing, and then travel up to Lake Iliamna, which boasts a lot of monster reports. They overfly the lake with a pilot who saw the creature once. They talk to local Tim Laport, who suggests places to fish for the beast, and also suggests that it might be a sturgeon (an ancient type of huge fish). They repeat their barrel and bait operation, and succeed in losing their bait to ... something. Soon, one of their barrels ends up a mile away from where they set it, with the heavy hook bent straight. Then they spot something big and white (15' long?) in the water; so they fish for it, apparently hook it, and... the line breaks. Just another one that got away. What's left to do but throw a tantrum, toss dynamite in the water, and shoot the lake with automatic weapons.
I'm unimpressed. A better equipped, more scientific expedition might have gotten better evidence rather than just another fish story. I'm also vexed that the original video is not shown in its entirety -- making creature identification difficult for any home viewer. Monster? With this type of "evidence," who can say?
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True, a lot of faults in their video. But, to be fair it only claims to be "home video" of their personal "look into" the sea monster claim.
If their good old boys, "get-er-done" fishing adventure prompts something of a more serious investigation then more power to them.
Debunkers are a little limp with half lidded suggestions of a sturgeon or moose in the video of the unidentified creature in the water.
I think it probably safe to say if there were as much budgeted to this endeaver as something as mundane as shrimp running on a treadmill? There could be far more understanding as to what the as yet unidentified creature truly is.
Actually, I was _fine_ with the original video. It looked pretty darn cool. My problem with this show, and a lot of its ilk, is they only showed us edited snippets of the video -- rather than letting us see the whole thing to get the context. Context often helps explain/solve a mystery.
And I agree that more should be spent, and more serious missions mounted, to look into such things.
I don't think that particular video looks like moose or sturgeon, either, though I would have liked an outside (non-crypto)_expert to have looked at it. Several times, on Fact or Faked, for instance, something that looks mysterious to you and me looks less mysterious to an actual marine biology expert. "Manatee group mating cluster" springs to mind, otherwise mistaken for a single, strange sea monster off the Florida coast.
My guess for this might be a cluster of seals or sea otters -- though I'm open to it being an unknown creature.
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