Somebody tell Captain Nemo he can turn the Nautilus around and go home. Deep-sea biologist and Southern Fried Science blogger Andrew David Thaler says the weird object is actually Sail Rock, an outcropping located near Deception Island. Leave it up to science to put a damper on the giant monster fervor. Other theories about the watery disturbance are that it's a massive kraken or the source of The Bloop, a loud low-frequency underwater sound that was mysterious at first, but now is attributed to fracturing icebergs.
Wowforreeel speculates it may be a Plesiosaur fin. YouTube user wowforreeel posted a video highlighting the find back in late April, and it's now gaining steam across the internet, because the internet loves a good monster story. It looks like a brown mass surrounded by swirling green-hued waters. Cryptozoologists are excited about a weird shape seen on Google Earth in the ocean near Antarctica. Lovecraft's deep-sea-dwelling tentacle-faced cosmic entity Cthulhu, you may want to hurry up and call the cult together. If you've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of author H.P. Google Earth screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET