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Posted on 02/22/2009 8:06:19 PM PST by Beowulf9
A member of a disaster team monitoring flood regions on the South East Asian island is said to have captured the image while hovering over the Baleh river in a helicopter. The shot, which shows a green, wavy object floating along the meandering river, has sparked rumours that a mythical snake called Nabau has returned to the area. Sceptics have joined the debate claiming that it is nothing more than the work of photo-editing software. Rather like the myths surrounding Scotland's Loch Ness Monster, legend has it that a terrifying 100ft snake called Nabau, with a dragon's head and seven nostrils prowled Borneo's rivers. Villagers who claim to have seen the snake in the flesh have now named it Nabau, after the folklore sea serpent which was thought to be able to transform itself into the shapes of different animals. Those dismissing the suggestions claim that the picture must be doctored because the river in the photo is a different colour to the real Baleh rover, which is a murky brown. Since the photo appeared on various news websites, further images, purportedly showing the snake at other parts of the river have been circulated. Even the respected New Straits Times newspaper in Kuala Lumpur has asked readers to make up their own minds about the photos. Earlier this month scientists unearthed the fossil of a killer snake that was longer than a bus, as heavy as a small car and which could swallow an animal the size of a cow. It is thought that the 45ft long creature, named Titanoboa, lived on a diet of crocodiles and giant turtles and inhabited the South American tropical forests some 60 million years ago. Partial skeletons of prehistoric beast weighed 1.25 tons found in Colombian coal mine by international team of fossil hunters.
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#17 photoshopped.
#20 - interesting.
Did John Murtha take a crap in that river?
A loose oil-boom for collecting spilled oil or wood?
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Looks a little scaly to me.
If so I’d guess this Loch Ness guy is a financial whiz, waited for the cargo shipping rates to plummet to ease the moving costs, then cashed out his British real estate before the bubble burst and is now retired in a tropical paradise on his earnings.
Probably,
There are gold dredge operators using pontoon boats with massive generators, bilge and dredge pumps and large hose systems, operating in that river system,
they use those hoses to dredge the bottom channels, that looks like a discarded or lost dredging hose.
Yes. Yes he has.
if they were hovering in a helicopter, why didn’t they take more pictures? I’d be more inclined to believe it if the subsequent pictures showed motion. Its kinda far-fetched to claim you saw this enormous snake, and only snapped one shot of it.
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Maybe they ran out of film in their digital camera?
Probably scaring boaters that Bornian (?) monsters won’t scare.
Hmm. If you look closely at the picture you can see two wake patterns on either side of the figure.
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Wish the mappenguari and the mngwa would start showing up!
Yep. Any crew that saw that snake, had a camera on board, and did not take 500 shot from all angles and elevation would be more fictitious than this photo. Besides, water clarity in this jungle river looks to be astoundingly clear - pretty handy for a single shot that even shows surface wake around the animal.
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