I'm uncertain if this might be helpful, however, I have used Google translate and copied from the original article, in French:
A "sea monster" photographed in 1936
Christophe Kilian Christophe Kilian
This photo illustrated a newspaper article published in 1936
This story is first and foremost that of Mr. Laurent Pelletier, as it is related in this article in the West Flash on Sunday, which appeared on December 13, 1936.
This engineer from the Bridges and Roads Department left France a few years earlier for Saigon. There, he managed several plantations, in addition to his work for the colonial administration. Mr. Pelletier cannot return to France every year, it is too far, but now there is this newly created airline, Air France, which offers an air link. He does the math quickly, these countless flea jumps in the air (the number of stopovers is indecent), all the same save him ... 3 weeks compared to a sea trip!
On October 1, 1936, there was still a long way to go from France, when he took his seat in this small plane that took off from the modest runway in the town of Djask, in what is now Iran. In the aircraft, there are two other passengers, and there are the two crew members. 5 people in total. The cockpit is very close, and it is not separated from the rest of the plane. Laurent Pelletier attentively follows the maneuvers performed by the pilots, then he gazes at the sumptuous landscape offered by his window.
The trip is going to be long and boring he thinks, then he sees Hormuz looming. This island was already an important trade hub 500 years ago, and it is home to many historical remains. Not wanting to miss the opportunity to take a snapshot of these ruins, he digs into some cardboard box suspended above his seat by a net, and grabs his camera. Because Mr. Pelletier, we can give him infinite grace for that, is a photography enthusiast. As proof, at the end of his journey, he will have impressed around forty films!
The plane now flies over the island of Ormuz and Mr. Pelletier is captivated by this bright ocher coast, dotted with white ribs, these piles of rock salt in the hollow of the ravines. With his eye in the camera's viewfinder, his right hand on the focus ring, Mr. Pelletier is about to capture this moment. But something stops him, and calls out to him. Now let him tell us about his observation in his own words:
"It was then that the most exceptional event I have ever witnessed in my entire life occurred!
I saw it first, quite far from the coast - at a distance I could not appreciate - a long bubbling foam, surprising the dead calm in the middle. This eddy moved from west to east, in a wide arc.
My Contax still in hand, I followed this inexplicable curve with my eyes. When at a certain distance from her, I saw a dark, very long wavy shape spinning then disappearing, something that moved ... meandering, something much larger than the largest cetaceans that we can meet in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.
From this distance, such a disproportionate appearance testified to a monstrous reality!
No one on the plane was paying attention to me or what I was looking at… (…)… I didn't want to stop staring at the sea where this white swirl still seemed to be. Even, I was ready to trigger my lens and waited passionately for the phenomenon to happen again.
My hope was not in vain ... for the second time I saw a sort of snake emerge from the bubbling, this time very black, although submerged. You know that from an airplane you can clearly see what escapes ordinary observation, up to several tens of meters below the surface of the sea. The beast was soon fully visible. I quickly took two photos.
I could make out a small bulge, the head undoubtedly, a very long neck, then a more pot-bellied ring - exactly like these photos of a boa digesting a sheep - finally a very long tail, much longer than the neck, almost equal even to the length of it plus what I call the belly. I cannot tell if the ripples in the step were horizontal or vertical, due to the sharpness of my visual angle, but the monster was progressing steadily in ripples.
A small stream of foam followed the anterior end for a moment, probably the beast stuck its head out of the water at that moment. "
The article entitled "News from the sea serpent" comes from the archives of the National Library of France, which we thank because it has been kindly digitized at our request. It is now freely available here.
Mr. Pelletier is convinced that what he saw is the same type of creature as the Lochness monster, (born just 3 years before) in which he had hardly believed until then. According to the newspaper, Mr. Pelletier provided the original photograph which technicians and photographers meticulously inspected and enlarged. They are formal, there is no trace of trickery or rigging. This photograph is real. Its interpretation is necessarily open to debate, but it is astonishing that this document has gone completely unnoticed for nearly a century.
Because, we can agree, the supposed photos of sea monsters are very, very rare. This is far from anonymous, and accompanied by a testimony from someone curious and educated. There is even a certain precision made as to the location of the shooting location: 56 degrees east longitude, 27 degrees north latitude.
The only trace that I have found, subsequent to the publication of 1936, is in an article on the appearances of sea snakes which appeared in the review Indochine, in 1943. Mr. Pelletier's observation is baptized "Le serpent de mer de the Air France plane ”. Then it looks like the Ormuz sea monster has completely disappeared from radar.
Ideally, the original film should be found, because it did not a priori remain the property of the newspaper but that of Mr. Pelletier.
A case, once again, to follow ...
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