FIG. 4 in From folkloric belief to fishery bycatch: contrasting cryptozoological and euhemeristic interpretations of Australian sea serpents

FIG. 4. — Pre-plastic maritime equipment forming the backbone of the long tails of putative sea serpents.A-F, early to mid twentieth-century fishing ropes and nets constructed of natural fibre (hemp); G, H, remarkably preserved hemp ropes retrieved from a 400 year-old sunken Basque whaling ship. Photo credits: R. France (taken at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic,Lunenburg, Nova Scotia [A, B]; the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia [C, D]; Battle Harbour National Historic District, Battle Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador [E, F] [see France 2019a for other, similar photos as well as nineteenth-century illustrations of the same]); Red Bay National Historic Site & UNESCO World Heritage Site, Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador (G, H).