A drawing of the Living Firehose, posted on the cryptoresponsereturns Weebly page.
Two species of unidentified Gulf of Mexico oil rig invertebrates were allegedly seen in the 1970s by a man named George Hale, working in the Gulf of Mexico as an undersea welder for Gulf Oil.
Description[]
Back on an internet message board around the year 2000 (the message board's actual name, etc. remains a mystery) an anonymous user described the encounters his friend, George Hale, had while working in the Gulf of Mexico during the 1970s. The user's post went as such:
"I used to have a friend who was at one time an undersea welder for Gulf Oil in the 70's and did work on the oil rigs way out in the Gulf of Mexico. He gave it up because he was seeing things down there that were beyond his ability to comprehend and even describe. And he wasn't the only one. At one oil rig, the welding crew were getting used to seeing this 'giant headless glowing living firehose' that would zoom in from out of nowhere at incredible Nascar speeds and would keep on zooming past the welders for up to fifteen minutes! My friend then said he finally saw what ate giant headless glowing living firehoses one scary day and caught the first helicopter back to shore. He never saw the ocean ever again and was thankful.
My friend George Hale was unable to describe the predator in detail. It was too big and too close to him. It was as big to him as you are to an ant. As a matter of fact, he had to ascend PDQ because he was in fear of being crushed like a bug. But the predator had a pallor and skin texture like a sea anemone and it might have been built along the lines of a starfish or a freshwater pond hydra. And it was eating the firehose entity by swallowing it. It's [sic] method of propulsion is a mystery."
Theories[]
A drawing of the titanic predator, posted on the cryptoresponsereturns Weebly page.
The giant headless glowing living firehose's description bears a very big resemblance to a sea salp or a siphonophore; however, salps and siphonophores are nowhere near as fast as described by George Hale.
The giant predator is more fantastic in nature and less plausible - a giant, starfish-shaped or hydra-shaped creature so large that a human is roughly the size of an ant would require plenty of energy to stay alive and support its massive size, which could more or less measure several kilometers in diameter.
Several internet users suggested that the creatures might have been hallucinations caused by oxygen shortage or intense pressure.