Dolphin solution to monster mystery? (From Western Telegraph)

Dolphin solution to monster mystery?

What, if anything, is lurking in the murky depths off Pembroke Dock's Front Street?

The staff of the Shipwright pub say they saw a 40-foot snake-like creature wriggling its way past the gun tower and have offered a £150 reward for anyone brave enough to land the beast alive.

An explanation has been put forward by a group of divers who had been taken out on a boat in the Haven on Sunday lunchtime.

One spotted something in the water and Len Bateman of Dive Pembrokeshire, who was leading the group, slowed down the boat and took it in to have a closer look.

"It turned out to be a dolphin," said Janet Bateman. "In all his time diving Len has never seen a dolphin that far in the haven. There are rarely single ones as well as they are usually in schools. Is this the Monster of the Haven we wonder?"

Ron Watts, honorary curator of the gun tower museum, has another theory. He said: "There is a capsized, submerged rowing boat out there. When the ferry came in on the low tide, its bow thrusters and side thrusters would have pushed the rowing boat towards Port of Pembroke. It would have passed the gun tower by a few yards. When the ferry went out again after the tide turned, her bow props and starboard thrusters would have dislodged anything trapped in that area and sent it back out into the haven.

"I don't think there are any creatures out there we don't know about already."