關(guān)于“阿爾文海蛇”的早期報道非常之簡潔:麥卡米斯最初引用他的話說:“當(dāng)我看到這個怪物或什么東西的時候”。我一轉(zhuǎn)身,它就不見了。這有點(diǎn)嚇到我了。這是一個活生生的生物……我猜它至少有四五十英尺長?!焙髞?,麥卡米斯向美國語言學(xué)家查爾斯·伯茨詳細(xì)地描述了這種怪物的特征。伯利茨在他的幾本書中都提到了它,而且,他總是把看到它的年份定在1969年。后來伯茨在他1977年出版的著作《無痕》(Without a Trace)一書中發(fā)表了麥卡米斯的第一手?jǐn)⑹觥?/p>
“We were down about 5000 feet and then I went down into a crevasse about 300 feet deeper under a slight outcrop. We went deeper because the cable we were following spanned the crevasse. It was right there that I spotted it. The first thing I noticed was the movement. I thought we were moving along the cable and checked for drift but found that the sub was stationary and that it was the object that was moving. It then occurred to me that perhaps it was a utility pole, especially because of its thick shape. I swung the sub in an arc to get a better view along the cable or pole or whatever it was, when I was astonished to see a thick body with flippers, a long neck, a snakelike head with two eyes looking right at us. It looked like a big lizard with flippers - it had two sets of them. Then it swam upwards with its back turned before we could get the cameras angled. They were set to photograph 15 to 25 feet in front of the submarine and the thing had already swum out of the camera angle but was still around. I didn't like the way things were happening, so I came up. I couldn't believe what I was seeing but I didn't want to hang around.” “我們下潛了大約5000英尺,然后我下潛到了一個裂縫中,那個裂縫大約300英尺深,在一個輕微的露頭下。我們走得更深,因?yàn)槲覀兏S的纜繩跨越了裂縫。就在那里,我發(fā)現(xiàn)了它。我首先注意到的是它的動靜。我以為我們是沿著纜繩移動,檢查了潛艇是否在漂移,但我后來發(fā)現(xiàn)潛艇是靜止的,是那個物體在移動。這時我突然想到,它可能是一根電線桿,尤其是因?yàn)樗雌饋砗芘?。所以我把潛艇擺成了個弧形,以便沿著纜繩或桿子或其他什么東西看得更清楚些,這時我驚訝地看到了一個粗壯的身體,身體上長有鰭狀肢,長長的脖子和一個蛇形的頭,那兩只眼睛正盯著我們。它看起來像一只長著鰭的大蜥蜴——而且它有兩組鰭。我們還沒來得及調(diào)整好攝像機(jī)的角度,它就轉(zhuǎn)身向上游去了。他們被安排在潛艇前方15到25英尺的地方拍照,那東西已經(jīng)游出了鏡頭的角度,但還在附近。我不喜歡事情發(fā)生的方式,所以我就上來了。我簡直不敢相信我所看到的,但我不想在這里逗留?!?/blockquote>
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