I was recently contacted by Bill and Bob Clark about their 14 definitive sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay since February 5, 1985.
They state, "We had an extremely close definitive sighting of a 60+ foot long serpentine marine animal unknown to science from only 20 yards away directly in front of us while we were sitting in our parked car looking at San Francisco Bay."
Bill and Bob Clark's YouTube channel documents the sightings.
A BRIEF SIGHTINGS HISTORY
October 31, 1983
According to a newspaper article in the November 3, 1983 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle, written by Steve Rubenstein, "SEA SERPENT CAPTURED ON PAPER. A 100-foot-long sea serpent was sighted off Stinson Beach by five people who had not been drinking.
'it was black with three humps' said Matt Ratto, who got the best look. The five witnesses, all members of a construction crew who were repairing a stretch of Highway 1 on a cliff overlooking the ocean said the serpent surfaced on Monday shortly before 2:00 p.m.
A flagman named Gary saw it first. He said the serpent was swimming toward the cliff from Duxbury Point, five miles away. He called Ratto, another flagman, on his two-way radio and told him to grab the binoculars.
By that time, both men said, the serpent was 100 yards offshore and less than a quarter mile away. It was being followed by about 100 birds and two dozen sea lions.
'The body came out of the water first.' said Ratto, who said he stared at it through binoculars the crew keeps on hand to watch nude sunbathers on the beach below during their lunch break." (Marlene Martin told us when we interviewed her that Ratto clarified the actual reason for having the binoculars was to search the cliffside for rocks that had fallen down on the road below.)
"There were three bends, like humps and they rode straight up.' he said, grabbing a pen and sketching a snake-like creature with a rounded head and a blunt nose.
Ratto said the serpent turned around, lowered its head beneath the waves, and swam out to sea. As it swam it gradually lowered its humps below the surface until it was no longer visible.
Another witness, truck driver Steve Bjora said the serpent was moving as fast as a car. 'The sucker was going 45 to 50 miles an hour.' Bjora said. 'It was clipping. It was boogying. It looked like a long eel.'
Marlene Martin, a safety inspector for the Department of Transportation, also saw the Stinson sea serpent. She was unavailable for comment yesterday, but her daughter, Tina said, 'Mom came home and told me it was the biggest thing she ever saw in her life, and my mom doesn't lie. She said it made Jaws look like a baby.'
Ratto said he doesn't lie either. 'Look' Ratto said, 'I'm not a psycho. I'm a regular guy. If I was going to make something up, I'd make something up like a 12-foot Mickey Mouse with five arms.'
Nonetheless, the Stinson sea serpent was proven yesterday to be as difficult to describe as it was to capture.
Bjora, for example, said the serpent had two humps. Ratto said three humps and Tina Martin had said her mother had specified four humps.
Jack Swanson, a biologist at the nearby Point Reyes Bird Observatory, said there had been periodic sightings of strange creatures off the Marin County Coast, and 'no one ever figures out what these sightings are.'
'A whale surfacing and backlit sunlight, silhouetted with a lot of glare, could look like the Loch Ness monster. On the other hand, there may be all sorts of prehistoric creatures swimming around out there that we know nothing about.'
Ratto said he was sure the creature was not a whale, a porpoise, or a submarine. 'there's no way it could have been a whale or a porpoise,' Ratto said, 'and it was too graceful to be a machine.'
'Anyway,' he added 'a submarine doesn't have a head.' "
On February 17, 1999, we interviewed Marlene Martin at her home. During our interview, she gave us some new information. The worst was that Matt Ratto was killed by a backhoe while working at a construction site. Marlene also said there were actually seven eyewitnesses but two of them didn't want to acknowledge having anything to do with the sighting.
It began when she was called on the two-way radio by one of the workers who said something weird was swimming toward them from Duxbury Point. She saw a V-shaped wake as it swam up to the beach 250 feet below them. At that point, it was completely underwater. Then it made a U-turn and headed toward the Farallone Islands. As it swam away from the beach she saw three humps followed by part of a fourth hump. At that point, she had the binoculars and when the sea serpent was a quarter of a mile away it raised its neck 15 feet out of the water and started swishing about. It held its head up shaking water all over and opened its mouth exposing many large teeth. She remembered the eyes appeared to be a very dark red, not only the pupil but the whole eye. She had difficulty describing the shade of red, saying, "not a blood red, but more of a ruby red." She gave more details about the teeth saying, it had, "alligator-like teeth all around the mouth."
In another newspaper article published in the POINT REYES LIGHT on Thursday, November 14, 1983, written by Pierre Hauser it said "Marlene Martin, a safety inspector for Caltrans, was less blase than Ratto about seeing the creature - 'It shocked the hell out of me' - and seemed to think it merited the extensive media play. 'That thing's so big he deserves front-page coverage. Except with all the attention I'm worried about its safety. Someone might try to kill it.'
Martin first spied it near Bolinas and watched it swim all the way down to Stinson and then turn out toward the Farallones.
'It had a wake as big as a powerboat's and it was going about 65 miles an hour. It looked like a great big rubber hose as it moved. If someone had gotten in its way it would have plowed right through them.'
Before it's submerged, Martin saw it raise its head and a part of its body out of the water, and open its mouth. 'It was like it was playing,' she said.
Martin characterized the creature as a 'giant snake or a dragon, with a mouth like an alligator's,' but said describing it was 'like describing an elephant to someone who has never seen one. it was at least 15 or 20 feet in circumference, but it was hard to tell how long it was. I mean how long is a snake?' she wondered.
She said it resembled monsters whose pictures she could never bring herself to look at as a child."
November 2, 1983
A sighting of a sea serpent by some fishermen in Pacifica, California, just south of San Francisco was reported by a Portland, Oregon radio station.
February 5, 1985
Bill and Bob Clark's first sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
February 28, 1985
Bill and Bob Clark's second sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
March 1, 1985
Bill and Bob Clark's third sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
Sometime in 1985.
A sighting of a sea serpent by Tisa Walden one night while she was riding in a car with two other adults and a small child on Highway 101 heading north between the San Francisco Airport and San Francisco. When we interviewed Tisa at her home she said she was in the backseat of the car and when she looked to her right out the passenger side back window she saw the sea serpent about 25 yards offshore. She said she saw the head and about 5 feet of the "neck" and two arches behind the "neck" above the surface of the water. She said she only saw the sea serpent for a few seconds but was absolutely certain about what she saw.
December 22, 1986
Bill and Bob Clark's fourth sighting of the sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
December 23, 1986
Bill and Bob Clark's fifth sighting of the sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
January 24, 1987
Bill and Bob Clark's sixth sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
February 25, 1987
Bill and Bob Clark's seventh sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
March 1, 1987
Bill and Bob Clark's eighth sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
August 7, 2001
Early in the morning at dawn, photographer Dennis Dooley saw and photographed something in the San Francisco Bay that he thought was a skull-type boat but after developing the photograph he was surprised to discover what he photographed was not a skull-type boat. Here is Dennis Dooley's affidavit describing what occurred that morning.
"On the morning of 7 August 2001, while photographing along the San Francisco Bay waterfront, I inadvertently captured images that, after the film was processed, puzzled and mystified me as I viewed the contact sheets. As a professional photographer with seventeen years of experience editing my own and other people's photos, my eyes are trained to quickly spot anomalies in any scene, and after studying the images for some time, leaving and coming back to them, I could not come up with any satisfactory explanation for the objects in my negative. As a black and white photographer, I am chiefly looking for light effects and strong compositions, and when before dawn I walked out onto Pier 7, located one block South of the downtown Ferry Building on the San Francisco waterfront, my intention was to capture the sun rising behind the western span of the Oakland San Francisco Bay Bridge. I stopped at about midway along the pier to survey the scene. Scattered clouds and mist above the bridge, where the sun was about to peek above the horizon near the central pillar of the western span, promised an atmospheric sunrise. Using my Nikon 8000s 35MM camera with a 28-105 zoom lens and Liford HP5 film (400ASA), I adjusted to slightly underexpose, as I wanted to capture the sun's reflected path of light on the water, and silhouette the bridge. As I was preparing the camera, I glanced up to notice what appeared to be a rower in a skull-type boat approaching the sun stream path from the right, or San Francisco side. Realizing on the instant that this added element might elevate what I knew would be a good photograph into a 'money' shot, I hastened to lift the camera and compose the shot, balancing the bridge and the sun's path on the water. I tripped the shutter several times, hoping that I would capture the boat and rower in the middle of the sun's path. After lowering the camera, I was surprised to not see, after minutes of gazing, any object on the calm water where I had seen it before, or anywhere near. There was some slight disturbance in the water where I had seen the object. I made a mental note that I would not find out if I had captured anything in that sunstream until I processed the film. After viewing the mysterious object(s) in the negatives, which seemed not to be a boat with a rower, nor anything else I could easily identify, I made a mental note to mention my experience to Bill and Bob Clark, long-time San Francisco residents, who I knew had experienced sightings of unidentified 'things' on Bay waters before. They encouraged me to enlarge the negatives to show them, and I did make a series of enlargements. I scanned the negatives on my Kodak 3600pdi scanner before processing them in Adobe Photoshop, which produces very high-resolution images. After seeing the enlargements, they seemed quite interesting, and forwarded copies to Dr. E.L. Bousfield, managing editor of Amphipacifica Research Publications in Ottawa, Canada. After a lengthy analysis, which he mailed back to the Clarks, he concluded that 'you may have something here indeed'. I have written the above testament for whomever it may interest or concern."
January 26, 2004
Bill and Bob Clark's ninth sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
May 3 or 4, 2004
Bill and Bob Clark's tenth sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
February 11, 2006
Bill and Bob Clark's eleventh sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
Summer of 2006
We interviewed a fisherman who asked us to withhold his name. He said he sighted a sea serpent while he was on his fishing boat with another man about a half mile out in the ocean off Navarro Beach which is about 125 miles north of San Francisco.
It was sometime during the day and it was foggy. Several boats were in the area and they were talking to each other over their radios when the wife of one of the men on another boat said she could see a sea serpent nearby. They all were laughing about it until she told them where to look and when they looked over they saw the head of a sea serpent and about 8 feet of neck sticking out of the water in a kelp bed.
December 19, 2006
Bill and Bob Clark's twelve sightings of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
Summer of 2007
We interviewed a husband and wife who asked us to withhold their names. They said they had two sightings of a sea serpent near the Candlestick Point condos off Highway 101. The wife saw it first while driving alone. It was undulating in and out of the water and she could clearly see what looked like several humps moving smoothly and hardly disturbing the water. Later in August that summer her husband said he saw a sea serpent eat a pelican that was sitting in the water in the same general area as his wife's first sighting while she was driving their car.
Sometime around 2008
We interviewed a young man who asked us to withhold his name. He said he sighted a sea serpent while riding in a car crossing the San Mateo Bridge west. He said he saw something, "very, very, very odd swimming in the waters near the middle of the bridge about 2 miles from shore. It looked like a very large dog, with a long neck and long ears that hung down."
February 8, 2009
Bill and Bob Clark's thirteenth sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
February 19, 2009
Bill and Bob Clark's fourteenth sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay. For more details refer to Bill and Bob Clark's list of 14 sightings of sea serpents in San Francisco Bay.
March 16, 2013
We interviewed a young man and he requested we withhold his name. He said,
"My mom, sister, and I were watching dolphins off of Baker Beach. About 20 minutes later we saw what we thought might have been a sea lion. This amazing creature you have documented curled out of the water, just the body, three or four times the size of the dolphins we had seen earlier. I caught the end of a tail." Baker Beach is just Northwest of San Francisco.
This will be a 2-part presentation that contains their sightings comments and interpretations:
SECOND SIGHTING
Our second sighting of a sea serpent in San Francisco Bay, California occurred on February 28, 1985.
We were at the same location on Marina Green as our first sighting on February 5, 1985.
We were just east of Stone Tower Point sitting in our parked car at approximately 9:00 a.m. when we saw the sea serpent about 400 yards offshore. The sea serpent was in the same general location as the group of sea lions we saw during our first sighting only further out.
Bob saw the sea serpent first. He could see the head and upper body of the sea serpent sticking 3 ft straight up out of the water looking towards Alcatraz Island with a single arch exposed above the surface of the water a few feet behind the head. The arch slowly rolled backward along 15 to 20 ft of the upper body behind the sea serpent's head then the arch disappeared underwater.
Bob told Bill what he had just seen and pointed to where he had just seen the sea serpent. When we both looked at the location, the head was still sticking straight up out of the water and another Arch was behind the head. We both watched the arch slowly roll backward another 15 to 20 ft along the upper body then once more the arch disappeared under the water.
The head of the sea serpent immediately stopped looking towards Alcatraz Island turned to its right then slowly swam West towards the Golden Gate Bridge and sank beneath the water.
By that time we had purchased an Instamatic camera but it all happened too fast for us to take any photos.
THIRD SIGHTING
After our second sighting, we decided to move to a new location in the parking lot just east of the Saint Francis Yacht Club because we would be closer to Stone Tower Point and approximately 100 yards further into the bay where we got an unobstructed view of the bay from the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz Island.
As luck would have it, we had another sighting of a sea serpent on March 1, 1985.
It was around 8:30 a.m. Bob saw the sea serpent in the same general location as our second sighting the day before. The sea serpent was about 200 to 300 yards offshore from our new location. Bob saw the sea serpent stick its head and upper body about 5 ft straight up out of the water. The head and upper body were out of the water for only a few seconds about 50 yards west from where we had our second sighting.
About half an hour later Bill saw a similar head swimming west barely above the water. Half an hour after that we both saw something at the water line swimming west at a very fast pace barely at the surface of the water which created a V-shaped wake on the surface of the water. We watched the V-shape wake as it moved several hundred yards parallel to the shore and west towards the Golden Gate Bridge. It went behind the Saint Francis Yacht Club so we moved our car down the road to the west side of the Saint Francis Yacht Club and parked our car there. We got out of the car and ran to the edge of the bay so we could look for the V-shape wake some more hoping the sea serpent would stick its head and upper body up out of the water. The whole time we watched it the V-shaped wake moved at the same speed approximately 10 to 15 miles per hour. Whatever was causing the V-shaped wake finally submerged underwater when a boat approached it from the west.
We continued to go to the same location almost every morning at dawn hoping to get another sighting but we saw nothing except the usual sea lions and birds. We were just about ready to give up our hunt for another sighting of the sea serpent when on December 22, 1986, we had another sighting of the sea serpent.
FOURTH SIGHTING
Our next sighting occurred on December 22, 1986, at 8:00 a.m.. It was a foggy misty morning and the water was calm. Bob was looking at a buoy that was 50 yards offshore and 75 yards west of where we were parked in our car. On the right side of the buoy, Bob saw what appeared to be two floating telephone poles bobbing up and down in the water. He half-jokingly told Bill the sea serpent was back and pointed to the buoy. Bill looked at the buoy and saw both objects floating in the water to the right of the buoy but they immediately submerged. A few seconds later we both saw a head surface between us and the buoy and slightly to the right of the buoy. We could see the head of the sea serpent and about a foot of its upper body above the surface of the water. The head of the sea serpent was looking directly at us. The sea serpent started to slowly swim towards us then without warning, the head and upper body raised straight up about 5 ft out of the water.
It was at this time we both got an excellent view of the head of the sea serpent. The front end of the head had a long snout and at the snout's tip were two huge nostrils. The nostrils were black, oval in shape, and about the size of a man's fist.
For a few seconds, the sea serpent continued to look directly at us then it casually turned its head to its right towards the shore, looked around, then turned to its left towards the middle of the bay then turned back and looked directly at us again. At that time the sea serpent was about 25 yards in front of the buoy and 50 yards away from us. As it continued to swim towards us, Bob grabbed an Instamatic camera out of the glove compartment and handed the camera to Bill who was sitting in the driver's seat of the car. Bill had a better view of the sea serpent. However, by the time Bill got the camera in position to take a photo the sea serpent had submerged.
We were trying to figure out where the sea serpent went when it reappeared about 50 yards directly in front of us.
Bill tried to take a photograph while Bob looked at it through 7×35 binoculars. As Bob was looking through the binoculars the sea serpent came into view in the binoculars moving from left to right. Bob got an incredible view of about 15 feet of the sea serpent's upper body arched gracefully like a swan's neck followed by a long arch about 8 feet in length. In a second it was gone from Bob's field of view in the binoculars. Bill saw the same thing as Bob but without the binoculars.
At this time, Bill jumped out of the car and began to run down the beach road to try to get a photo. Bob also jumped out of the car but it was raining so hard at that time he decided to go back inside the car and look for the sea serpent through the binoculars. Bill ran down the beach road towards Stone Tower Point and he saw the sea serpent surface 150 yards away. Bill saw the sea serpent lift its upper body about 10 feet out of the water. Just then a jogger ran by Bill going in the opposite direction. Bill's first thought was to stop the jogger so there would be another eyewitness but then Bill realized he should forget about trying to talk to the jogger and just take a photo. Bill took the photo and tried to take another one but before he could the sea serpent went underwater.
Bill ran further down the beach road until he saw the sea serpent resurface about 100 yards away. Bill stopped running and took a second photo but before he could take another photo the sea serpent again went underwater. The sea serpent was swimming east towards Stone Tower Point and Bill thought if he could get to the end of Stone Tower Point and the sea serpent resurfaces he might be able to get a closer photo of it. The sea serpent was getting near the tip of Stone Tower Point so Bill stopped running again and took a third photo as the sea serpent swam slowly with its head slightly above the surface of the water and a single arch directly behind its head. By now Bill was three-quarters of the way down the beach road so he ran the rest of the way to the tip of Stone Tower Point hoping to get another photo if the sea serpent surfaced as it swam past the tip of the Stone Tower Point. When Bill reached the tip of Stone Tower Point he climbed down the rocks to the water's edge. Right away Bill saw the sea serpent where he thought it would be only 25 yards away with the sea serpent's head and a bit of an arch slightly above the surface of the water. Bill watched the sea serpent and it seemed to Bill like the sea serpent was watching him. Bill took a fourth photo then the sea serpent went underwater again. While crouching at the water's edge waiting for the sea serpent to resurface so he could take another photo, Bill realized that enough time had passed for the sea serpent to be able to swim under the water up to where Bill was so Bill quickly climbed back up the rocks to the safety of the beach road. After waiting for several minutes Bill saw no sign of the sea serpent again so he returned to the car and told Bob what had happened. As it turned out, Bob had not seen the sea serpent again while looking for it through the binoculars so we ended the hunt for the day.
FIFTH SIGHTING
December 23, 1986, Bob had to work in the workshop so at dawn Bill went to the same Saint Francis Yacht Club parking lot by himself. Since it was raining Bill thought he was wasting his time. Bill had been watching a half an hour when he looked away from the buoy which was about 50 yards away and glanced at Alcatraz Island. After turning his head back towards the buoy, Bill noticed there was now a tall, tube-like, black object sticking straight up about 5 feet out of the water next to the left side of the buoy. At first, Bill thought it might be a man standing in a boat then he realized there was no boat there and that it was the head and upper body of the sea serpent. Keeping one eye on the sea serpent Bill reached for the camera but before he could take a photo the sea serpent lunged forward and dove underwater. That was all Bill saw that day.
SIXTH SIGHTING
January 24, 1987, the next sighting occurred at 8:00 a.m. while it was raining. The water was calm and Bill was looking west at the Golden Gate Bridge when he noticed something a few hundred yards away swimming towards the buoy. He told Bob where to look and as it got closer to the buoy we both saw the head of the sea serpent slightly above the surface of the water with several arches breaking the surface of the water behind the head. Bill grabbed the camera, got out of the car ran to the seawall closest to the buoy then started taking photos. The sea serpent swam up to the buoy and hung out for a little while. Bob grabbed the binoculars and then also ran over to the seawall nearest the buoy and looked for the sea serpent while Bill took more photos. We both stood there watching the sea serpent until it was submerged beneath the water again. Since it was raining very hard, Bob eventually went back to the car and got his hat while he continued to look through the binoculars. The sea serpent surfaced a little east of the buoy, submerged, and then resurfaced 35 yards in front of us.
An arch of the upper body of the sea serpent could easily be seen as it slowly rolled 15 feet backward while the sea serpent moved forward at the same speed which gave the appearance that the arch was standing still in the water. The sea serpent was only 10-15 yards away from where we were standing on the edge of the seawall so we got a very good look at the arch. It looked like half of a large truck tire above the surface of the water. Shortly, the arch sank beneath the water then unexpectedly, two sea lions appeared just in front of where the arch had been. The two sea lions were swimming in the same direction that the sea serpent had been swimming. The two sea lions swam one in front of the other. The sea lion in front was average size but the second sea lion was much smaller and looked like a pup. The second sea lion was brown but on its right rear side there was a large red splotch that looked like blood. Both sea lions dove back underwater and neither they nor the sea serpent were seen again.
All of the photos Bill took that morning were out of focus because it turned out there was water on the lens of the camera.
SEVENTH SIGHTING
This sighting occurred on February 25, 1987, just as the sun was rising. We both saw something barely surface near the same buoy. It stayed up above the surface of the water just long enough for Bill to take two photos of it near the buoy but when the photos were developed nothing could be seen except the buoy. Half an hour later, Bill saw something pop up in front of us about 35 yards away. Bob looked through the binoculars and saw a long length of the sea serpent with something that looked like a black water hose wrapped around the long arch of the upper body of the sea serpent. As Bob looked through the binoculars he saw the smaller hose-like black object make a vertical undulation near the front of its body and then pull itself forward slightly. That's when Bob realized what he was looking at was a very young sea serpent with its upper body wrapped around the upper body of the larger sea serpent just like a barber pole's red stripe wraps around the pole.
With his naked eyes, Bill also saw the very young sea serpent wrapped around the upper body of the larger sea serpent. While we were talking to each other about what we were seeing and agreeing that it looked like a baby sea serpent wrapped around the upper body of the larger sea serpent, the larger sea serpent dove underwater taking the younger sea serpent with it.
Approximately 15 minutes later, only 20 yards away and almost directly in front of us, a small black head and about one foot of the upper body of the baby sea serpent rose straight up out of the water. The baby sea serpent twisted its head slightly to its right, opened its mouth, and began to growl and hiss at the same time. Bill quickly took a photo of the baby sea serpent through the front windshield of our car. Then Bill jumped out of the car and while leaning on the roof of the car he took two more photos. However, when the photos were developed only the first photo showed something black sticking about a foot out of the water. In the center of the second photo, another buoy could be seen which was about 150 yards away because Bill had overshot the baby sea serpent. 5 seconds after Bill took the second photo he took a third photo but again he had overshot the baby sea serpent and the same buoy could be seen in the center of the photo. However, in the third photo about 25 yards in front of and to the left of the buoy was a long curved tubular black object. We didn't realize it until about 10 years later when we finally examined the photo closer that Bill had gotten a photo of the head of the larger sea serpent and at least 5 feet of the upper body of the larger sea serpent above the surface of the water very near the buoy. Apparently, during the five seconds between taking the second and third photos, the larger sea serpent raised its head and a portion of its upper body out of the water near the buoy.
EIGHTH SIGHTING
March 1, 1987, our next sighting occurred just after sunrise and several hundred yards east of where we were parked in the Saint Francis Yacht Club parking lot. Bob saw two large arches about 5 feet apart break the surface of the water at the same time and then move in unison. Both arches were about 3 feet above the surface of the water. The arches quickly went underwater at the same time and weren't seen again.
As it turned out, it was the last sighting we had of the sea serpent for the next 17 years.
After nearly two years of looking for the sea serpent almost every morning during the winter months, we both were tired and needed a break so the next winter we only occasionally went looking for the sea serpent but we saw nothing.
We planned to look for the sea serpent again the next winter but on October 17, 1989, San Francisco was shaken by the worst earthquake since the 1906 earthquake so that changed our plans.
For the next two years after the earthquake tourists were too afraid to come to San Francisco and our small jewelry business was almost wiped out. We had no other source of income so we barely survived. Finally, tourists began to visit San Francisco again so we had to concentrate on rebuilding our business instead of looking for the sea serpent.
The years went by and we had to work very hard to keep our business alive so we rarely went down to the bay to look for the sea serpent.
On January 25, 2004, the brakes in our car went out so we had to bring our car to an auto repair shop the next day to get new brakes.
Bill and Bob Clark's YouTube channel documents the sightings. They can be contacted at billandbobclark2@gmail.com
NOTE: Part II will continue with Bill and Bob Clark's sighting reports and documentation. Lon
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