Release the Kraken
A giant marine monster roughly 150 feet (45 meters) long and considered an unidentified species of squid attacked the USS Stein in 1978, damaging a sonar fastened to the ship’s bottom with its claws.
The incident was later documented in the “Sea Creatures and Equipment Damage Problem” report despite the account sounding like fiction, but it wasn’t. It happened.
Sadly, the information that made it into the media was scant. However, a video depicts a section of rubber coating that has been damaged and is covered with tiny holes.
Additionally, it has been said that the rubber included sharp claws that resembled the suction cups of squid tentacles. The squid had larger claws than any squid discovered by science.
A squid with such claws has been said to grow to roughly 150 feet (45 meters), although this is a very flimsy estimate, and official accounts don’t give any indication of the size of the attacking species.
Expert F. G. Wood of the Naval Ocean Systems Center (Naval Electronics Laboratory), Point Lima, San Diego, examined the damage to the NO FOUL rubber coating of sonar equipment.
