Was the ‘Enormous Serpent’ of HMS Daedalus in 1848 a "Sei" Monster?

Was the ‘Enormous Serpent’ of HMS Daedalus in 1848 a "Sei" Monster?

An updated repost of an odd bit of history. One of the most interesting accounts of a sea serpent is that of the HMS Daedalus in 1848. When sailing in the South Atlantic, some 300 miles from the coast of present-day Namibia, officers and crew aboard the ship saw what they described as an enormous serpent swimming with its head four feet above the water and roughly another sixty feet of the creature extending back in the sea. Captain McQuahoe als…