Strange Floaty thing in Swanage??!!

[jprstoney]

During the summer we were leaving Swanage, heading for Kimmeridge and saw a strange yellow...thing moving out of the bay. It wasn;t a divers SMB as it was too small and moving too fast.

It was about 12 inches long, rugby ball shaped, with no aerial or antenna, moving at about 4 knots. We WERE sober.

Any ideas? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Colin_S]

Not one of these?

 

[Twister_Ken]

Arrrrh, she'll be the phantom scrotum of Ol Joe Persimmon, skipper of the shrimper 'Swanage Shafter', who contracted a dreadful disease (picture here) while serving on the frigate HMS Shaftem in tropical waters.

Ol Joe set sail one day, chasing the shrimp migration upchannel, and when off Old Harry, his crew reported that Joe just 'sort of exploded', leaving only a seaboot and a souwester as evidence of his passing.

They do say, when the moon's in the south, the sun's in the west, the wind's in the north and his widder's in the arms of the harbourmaster, that his scrotum can be seen, still chasing the shrimp.

 

[jprstoney]

Nah, It wasn't a DPV but it could've been Ol Joe's scrotum if he had a bad case of jaundice when he went to davy jones locker /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Come to think of it, didn't I see his scrotum in a cameo part on I'm a Celebrity.

 

[Lakesailor]

It's was one of them there 'blind eels' you get after some poor soul has lost it all to the demon malt.

 

[jprstoney]

Nope, it was definitely something strange, sinister and secret. It could be the downfall of Swanage you know. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

I think it might be the French trying to sabotage the Olympics...but they missed Weymouth...