Biggest snake in the sea called Sea serpent anyone find the old newspapers? Like that 1848 a ship saw a Huge snake in the South Atlantic,It seems can kill the men all in ship very easy ，It 18 m LONG ,Can someone to find the old newspapers to us to watch this. Jonathan (2011). Don't Shoot the Albatross!: Nautical Myths and Superstitions. A&C; Black, London, UK. ISBN 978-1-4081-3131-2. Jump up ^ A particularly famous sea serpent sighting was made by the officers and men of HMS Daedalus in August 1848 during a voyage to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic; the creature they saw, some 60 feet (18 m) long, held a snakelike head above the water, and Captain Peter M'Quahe's report said "something like the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch of seaweed washed about its back." The sighting caused quite a stir in the London papers, and Sir Richard Owen, the famous English biologist, proclaimed the beast an elephant seal. Other explanations for the sighting proposed that it was an upside-down canoe, or a giant squid.[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_serpent