Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water,the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute is bringing massive prehistoric marine monsters to Bermuda.

The new exhibit, ?Savage Ancient Seas?, will take this year take visitors back about 70 million years to the late Cretaceous period when 45 foot monsters ruled the seas.

BUEI director Wendy Tucker said: ?It is a world of huge carnivorous marine reptiles with double hinged jaws and teeth in the middle of their palates, gigantic flesh-eating fish big enough to swallow an adult human being whole, flying reptiles with three-foot skulls and the biggest sea turtles to have ever lived.?

Ms Tucker said Bermuda has ?never seen anything like this before.?

Members of the public will be able to peer into the mouth of one of the largest marine mosasaurs ever discovered ? a 45 foot-long Bunker Tylosaurus ? or walk under the Loch Ness Monster?s ancient ancestor, a 42-foot-long plesiosaur, and swim with a school of the first three-dimensional reconstructed aggressive carnivorous fish of the day.

Ms Tucker the public will be able to sift through time and sediments as flying reptiles? soar overhead and ammonites fall prey to munching mosasaurs while learning how these ancient marine monsters lived and died, which of the prehistoric predators swam around Bermuda and who survived to today.

BUEI, in partnership with Triebold Palaeontology, will develop an ancient underwater environment where visitors can encounter enormous vicious sea monsters of the Cretaceous Period. Ms Tucker said the exhibition includes more than 18 prehistoric marine skeletons, including actual specimens and casts that are too fragile and rare to be transported from their permanent homes, mounted in extraordinary three-dimensional displays. ?The skeletons are mounted dramatically both on the floor and suspended from the ceiling above.?