Could a “Sea monster” “attack” a boat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rBsyBak08g
Wait till the 1:20 min mark! Wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY_FAE8hJKg
>>>An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a Nantucket, Massachusetts whaling ship) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America, 1820. Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick was, in part, inspired by this story<<<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)
If a whale could scare some like this:
Perhaps this scared a few folks? And called them
“Sea Monsters”?