Britain's Royal Navy stated that it does not keep track of sea monster sightings. Best Freedom of Information query ever:
A marine biologist inquired whether the Ministry of Defence held records about ''abnormally large or dangerous sea monsters hundreds of metres under the sea'' that had not been revealed to the public.
In reply an official wrote: ''The RN (Royal Navy), and MoD in general, does not maintain any form of central repository of information purely devoted to sea monsters..."
Time for digital repositories to swing into action!
The Telegraph also muses:
The MoD's stance on sea monsters contrasts with the policy on UFOs it maintained for more than 50 years.
We in the legal profession would consider the term "purely" as used here to be a "weasel word" that makes the response rather pregnant. Does MoD maintain an information repository on sea monsters /and/ other less monstrous cryptozoological phenomena? Or of sea monsters /and/ atmospheric anomalies? More FOIA requests are in order!
Posted by: Thomas | May 20, 2010 at 22:46
Ha! Nice catch, counselor. Don't forget land-based crypto-critters, too.
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | May 25, 2010 at 06:21