LIFE IN THE GREAT DEPTHS in 



these strange prehistoric creatures still exist 

 in the depths of the sea and that an occasional 

 individual, disabled, sick or injured comes to 

 the surface and is seen by man and reported 

 as a "sea-serpent." 



V To most people the idea of the "sea-serpent" 

 really existing may seem preposterous and 

 foolish, for the sea-serpent is so often reported 

 and so many people have claimed to have seen 

 it that we have come to consider it as a myth 

 and think the stories about it pure "yarns." 

 The very fact that so many people claim to 

 have seen the sea-serpent and that a great many 

 of these individuals are men of little or no im- 

 agination and of unquestionable veracity, goes 

 far towards convincing scientists that there 

 must be some foundation for the stories. 

 Moreover, the most trustworthy of alleged ob- 

 servers of sea-serpents do not agree in their de- 

 scriptions of the monsters and this leads many 

 well-informed naturalists to the firm convic- 

 tion that not one, but many, sea-serpents really 

 live in the ocean. In fact we actually know 

 that sea-serpents do exist and while none of 

 those known to science would answer the de- 



