The Channel Creature?
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The Ranger has been sent a link to a campaigning organisation called the ‘Association of Maritime Research’. They’re a newly-formed association who are reporting on what they claim is a ‘large fast-moving object’ in the English Channel.
There’s even a video showing the thing allegedly zooming along. Frankly, it’s all a bit mysterious – and a little look at the Association of Maritime Research looks, well, a bit fishy. For example, on the AMR website they suggest one hypothesis is that this mysterious object is a cetacean. They write:
The order Cetacean includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Cetus is Latin and is used in biological names to mean, “whale”; its original meaning, “large sea animal”, was more general. It comes from Ancient Greek κῆτος…
Fair enough – but you’d think that AMR might employ a real scientist who would spell ‘Cetacea’ right – and italicise it. Especially as the text appears to have been copied directly from the Wikipedia article of that name – where it’s spelt right. Have a look at the website yourself – what do you think? Phoney? Or just incompetent? Some kind of clever marketing ploy, I suggest. Update: yup, it’s an ad. For a boat. Those krazy marketeers, what will they think of next?
Huge fish observed terrifying bathers off the IOW.
Can we have our reward now?
They want sightings eh? Rewards on offer? Well I think somebody ought to start sending some in. Surely there must be someone who can use photoshop better than whoever made their website?