From the Spearboard.com forums:We are commercial divers for sea cucumbers. My friend and I rode out
From the Spearboard.com forums:We are commercial divers for sea cucumbers. My friend and I rode out from San Pedro to San Clemente yesterday. About 4 miles away from San Pedro, my friend was controlling the boat and called me to look at this monster creature. I had enough time to take a few pictures. The measurements of the head was like 3 feet long and 2 feet wide and about 2 feet high. In the first picture, from the right side, that is the nose. In the middle, it is the eye which was about 4 inches long. And to the left, is the back of the head. We did not see the body. To me, it looked like a mix of a horse, camel, and hippopotamus. It rose out of the water, just its head, and slowly went down into the water again as we were 15 feet away. Does anybody know what this THING is? This is not fake. Does anybody know who I can refer to or contact for more information to find out more about it? Thanks.As other posters pointed out, this is clearly a Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris). In response, the eyewitness stated:Maybe you’re right. I checked Google and the top of the head looks like it. It’s a bit different, but also a bit similar. Are Elephant Seals even located here and do they come to this area?As a person interested in cryptozoology, this is a goldmine. Everybody knows anecdotes can be faulty but it’s hard to test just what sort of description a person will give to an unfamiliar animal. It’s once in a blue moon that somebody will include photographs with their descriptions… which demonstrate just how wrong their descriptions are.Most ‘True Believer’ types will argue that a person identifying as a "commercial diver" will be experienced with everything and pretty much infallible. And surely nobody only 15 feet away from an animal could misidentify it, right? Yeah… not so much. It’s interesting that even after looking up pictures of an elephant seal, the eyewitness found it "a bit different". Comparing an elephant seal to a "horse, camel, and hippopotamus" seems a bit counter-intuitive and it’s interesting that the cryptid 'Cadborosaurus’ is often also compared to the first two. The dimensions of the head and eye also seem to be exaggerated. -- source link
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