Was the USS Stein Attacked by a KRAKEN?
On her maiden voyage out of San Diego, CA, the U.S. Navy Frigate Stein also had a weird encounter. The Stein’s anti-submarine sonar gear suddenly went unserviceable.
The USS Stein sailed home. Once the family reunions were over and the ship was in dry dock.
Petty Officer Ira Carpenter went down to examine the underwater dome and noticed that there were some quite long scratches starting from the front and the side and down underneath the dome itself. The longest one I would say was about four feet long at the bottom of each one of these cuts or at least 90 percent of the cuts were something embedded underneath the rubber coating itself.
“Of course, I was interested to determine what that was it was I had never seen anything like this before this type of damage was brand new to me so I used my knife to pick out one of the foreign objects underneath the coating. It looked to me like it was a claw and I quipped to my ASW Officer at the time.” I said, “Look here. It looks like we have been attacked by a bunch of small alligators.”
Navy Biologist FG Woods stated, “This is a small piece of the no foul covering that was taken from the sonar dome of this ship. In many of these cuts were found teeth or claws such as this one and it was apparent that whatever did this damage grasped the dome and ripped all the way through this rubber covering to the metal. Below the claw, it looked like it had been rinsed out of whatever had put it there. I think that it must be from a squid because do has claws or hooks similar to this. Nothing else is known in the ocean that has structures of this kind. This doesn’t rule out something that we haven’t found yet.”
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