Sea serpent-a"friend"of ship and shore

-kind of sea monster either wholly or partly serpentine
-sightings have been reported for hundred years & recent work
by Bruce Champagne indicates have been 1,200 or more all told
-have been seen from both ship and shore & by multiple people
at once
-no credible evidence has been recorded
-currently believed that the serpents do not exist
-for more information, go tohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Serpent