Two days ago, I linked to Ahnoto again with the diving team, this time wearing a diving suit. I´m not a avid diver, just wanted to see the lake bed myself, floating just beyond the surface. I did only use a snorkel, didn´t plan to go all the way down.
Of course, I didn´t see much at first, the water was too murky. The divers fanned out beneath me, and I watched them disappear slowly in the dark depths. After some time – I was getting more and more uncomfortable, it´s like looking into a gaping maw – I thought I had seen a dark shadow moving through the deep water. I watched more closely, but the shadow had vanished as quick as it had appeared.
Ten minutes or so later, the divers came back. We surfaced and I asked them, if they had seen anything unusual – they hadn´t.
As we prepared to link out, I – fortunately – made a last glance into the dark – and saw it. A strange, alien creature, just 20 feet beneath us, floating there and watching us. I flinched so extremely, that my companions immediately understood something was wrong with me. They submerged, and saw it too. One of them put his hand on my arm, to calm me and gestured towards me not to move.
The creature was approximately 10 feet long. It had four large fins and a round, tortoiselike head with a beak. I could see four black eyes, two on each sides of the head. It had a smooth skin, similar to that of a dolphin, with dark stripes on a greyish background color. It didn´t move a lot, just holding it´s position, and watched us as intense as we watched it.
After some minutes, it turned away from us and dived away from us rather quickly, disappeared again into the dark.
After this encounter, we linked out and stood there for two hours, talking about our discovery excitedly.