Is this a boat or a sea monster?

Pita Witehira an engineer, who first spotted the strange shape in Oke Bay, New Zealand on Google Earth thinks more likely to be a sea monster.

He spotted it about a week ago while he was looking at the area where he is going to build a beach chalet on Google Earth. He simply zoomed in and found the strange upside-down “J” shape.

While we may say that the shape was obviously made by a boat, Whitehira says it can’t be because it doesn’t have the frothy white wake that motors create trailing behind it.

 “The Native Maori (New Zealand’s Native population) would call this a ‘Taniwha’  as it appears not to be a whale and it is far too big to be a shark. It is moving too fast and turning too sharply to be a whale,” Whitehira said.

“It’s got to have a lot of weight under the water to create that kind of drag.”

Of course, there are doubts. Some say the image is of a floating tree trunk or that the shadow was just created by a photography glitch