Turtle Lion
In 1955 the Nobel prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, worked for a Bogota, Columbia newspaper. One of his most successful newspaper articles was the story of L. Alejandro Velasco, who had been on a raft without anything to eat or drink for ten days after a giant wave had washed him from a ship. On March 8, 1 he had been at sea for several days and was off Uraba, Columbia when he thought he had a hallucination. “About five metres distance from the raft, I giant yellow turtle with a tigered head and fixed dumb eyes that resembled two giant balls of glass which stared at me terribly . . . The ugly animal, about fo metres from head to tail, dove when it saw me move, and left a trail of fo
And another quoted in Pursuit:
Bernard Heuvelmans mentions two reports of large turtle like sea monsters also in the Atlantic Ocean. The first was a 60-foot animal observed near t Newfoundland banks in 1883 The second one, seen by mariners of t