This from the Working Waterfront News:
 
"Sea Serpent" surprises Nova Scotia lobsterman.
 
It was a beautiful June day.  Wallace Cartwright and his sternman were hauling traps. 
 
Cartwright saw it -- 25 feet long with a body the diameter of a five-gallon bucket.  Three humps on its back.  It weighed at least four hundred pounds.  Its head was a foot above the water, disproportionately small with the body, looking almost like the head of a sea turtle.  It went down and hid in the mud.
Cartwright hung around, then saw it a half a dozen times over 45 minutes by following it back out to deepwater -- at three or four knots.  He didn’t have a camera aboard.
 
The Curator of Zoology at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History talked with him.  The curator believed Cartwright may have seen an oarfish, adding that in the museum freezer there were several deepwater fish from off Labrador that appeared to be new species.  In the absence of a specimen, he could only speculate.
 
Cartwright said, “I looked up oarfish on the Internet, and I’m here to tell you it was definitely not an oarfish.  An oarfish looks like a ribbon and this was tube shaped.  Oarfish swim vertically and this was swimming horizontally.  My neighbors will tell you I have a reputation as a credible man.”

Reputations matter -- giving us credibility, or not.
The resurrection witnesses were credible.  On their word, a faith was formed.
 
Let’s Pray:  Dear God, our reputations matter.  Help us be reliable in our dealings and candid with our words.  Amen.
 
Here’s a Thought:  A credible reputation is a treasure.

 
Source: Working Waterfront News, Published by the Island Institute, August 2003