Was Nessie active in the war effort?

[robkelk]

CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/100-y ... -1.3811500]Engineers stumble on WWI German submarine sunk by 'sea monster'

This sounds sufficiently interesting to add to a Weird War One game or story:

The submarine was caught by the British HMS Coreopsis on April 30, 1918, as it was floating on the surface during the day. The German crew surrendered without resistance.

When questioned about why his submarine was floating on the surface, the ship's Captain Krech told a wild tale.

He said the sub was recharging its batteries on the surface of the water at night when a "strange beast" rose from the water and attacked them.

Krech described a beast with "large eyes, set in a horny sort of skull … with teeth that could be seen glistening in the moonlight."

He said every one of his crew began firing at the beast until it dropped back into the sea. But Krech said the sub was so damaged in its battle with the "monster" that it could no longer submerge.

Alas, some people are spoilsports:

[Historian Innes McCartney] has a different theory of what may have happened, and it doesn't involve sea monsters.

"The submarine was caught on the surface at night recharging its batteries," he said. "It saw the patrol ship coming, it attempted to do a crash dive to get away and the young officer whose job it was to shut the hatch at the top didn't stop it properly, and when the submarine was underwater it began rapidly flooding from above so they had no option but to just blow all the compressed air they had, bring the submarine to the surface, at which point all they could do was surrender."

Shall we go with the reported story instead of the historical reconstruction?
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[DHBirr]

I'd like to hear the historian's explanation for why Captain Krech spun such a wacky yarn.... 
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Skyfire2020]

It's probably a sign I've watched too many cartoons but my first though was the monster was probably an allied sub disguised as a sea monster on some sort of secret mission.

Mark