Hahaha Dom, the Anaconda story again........Anyway just to mentioned that I was told the same story by the locals there. This happened like decades back when logging was the prime business of Sabah. For people who dunno me, well I declare myself first....yup I'm a Sabahan, born in the heart of logging industry, Sandakan.

This 20m snake not neccesarily an anaconda, it's existence is unknown, maybe it is the grandaddy of all snakes because of it's size, maybe an undescribed species of snake.

During those logging days, logs of timbers are cut and dragged into a collection canal connecting to the river, when sufficient volume is achieve this logs are pull into flowing river so that it will flow downstream where the timber factories were located. Since technology was limited those days, this loggers will actually hook the logs and pull them towards the current.

What happen was one of the loggers hooked onto what he thought was a piece of timber, you can't actually different when there were so many half submerged/floating timbers what the heck it is. So with a sudden jolt this "timber" actually slided a few metres ahead and submerged into the river. The workers there had the shock of their life.

So how did they came to the conclusion of 20m long its due to estimation of the girdth of its body. And they claim it is anaconda because anaconda is the only snake known to be able to submerge in water discounting water snake and sea snake..........Hahaha this is not the largest snake story yet, I remembers there's a documentation on TV that shown a snake track as wide as 2 car lanes in Amazon.........this has to be one of those Rippley's Believe It or Not