Coast Guard Finds Large Blue Tarp — Then They Take A Closer Look

Stunned Silence

Laid out before them was a bizarre, almost monstrous heap of nets, crates, waterlogged barrels, and at the center, something that looked like the pale, bloated body of an enormous animal, almost whale-sized but not quite right. No one spoke. The only sound was the slap of water and the wind whistling over the waves.