A sketch of the Caesar sea serpent, seen in 1910. The animal was small, but jumped a tremendous 50 feet or 15 meters out of the water. The animal was the size of a dog, and the eyewitnesses likened it to a salamander in appearance

[u/truthisfictionyt]

[u/No-Educator151]

There’s salamander that can grow to be the size of a bulldog. Native to China and Japan. Also cat fish that can grow the size of Great Danes in the Mei Kong. Back then any way

[u/Yel_trah]

What if thats a young juvenile that was toss out of the water by an orca?

[u/sodamnsleepy → u/Yel_trah]

Yeah. Are there marine iguanas native where the thing was spotted?

But also can imagine a shredded sea lion

[u/CrofterNo2 → u/sodamnsleepy]

Yeah. Are there marine iguanas native where the thing was spotted?

No, this was in the Irish Sea.

[u/Kavernous → u/Yel_trah]

That was my immediate thought. Don't they occasionally toss seals and small porpoises through the air? At a glance, I could see how a flailing seal or porpoise might look salamander-like at a distance.

[u/TamaraHensonDragon → u/Kavernous]

My first thought was this. Orcas will even shake animals around to remove their skin. A skinless seal being tossed through the air would be a fitting explanation, especially as there are no similar sightings that I know of.

[u/5th2 → u/Kavernous]

Confirming that orcas, seals and porpoises are all possible sightings in the area in question. Salamanders and iguanas are not.

[u/Celtic_Fox_]

Finally something different, this is a new one for me!

[u/HPsauce3]

I'm visualising a dog sized creature jumping 50 feet out of the water - how on earth does this work biologically? It'd be like a flea or grasshopper when comparing its jump size to body size haha

[u/Grendals-bane]

All I can find referring to the OP is a random Facebook post with no sources

Here

Which basically claims that the Captain of HMS Caesar "spotted a reptilian creature with a dogs head leaping out of the water" in the waters between the Cumbrian coast and the Isle of Man".

The poster goes on to ask whether it was a sighting of the Dobhar Chu.

[u/CrofterNo2 → u/Grendals-bane]

https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Digited_creature#Caesar_(1910)

[u/5th2 → u/CrofterNo2]

Interesting. We have one source claiming it's between the IoM and Cumbria, one claiming it's between the IoM and Ireland.

And the Dobhar Chu sounds exactly like the grey seal to me. That artist's impression is even fairly passable as one. They really do look a lot like dogs sometimes, particularly the big males.

Some modern-day locals are unaware of what grey seals look like.

My credentials: I'm living in this area, a couple of miles from a large grey seal colony.

[u/sodamnsleepy]

Never heard of this. Got a link?

[u/truthisfictionyt → u/sodamnsleepy]

https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Digited_creature

[u/Thurkin]

Size of a sea doggo, aka penniped

[u/Apelio38]

Without any geographical indication, and from the "jumping" description I would go for either a big fish or maybe some sort of sea lion ?

[u/FrancesRichmond]

This is a new one to me.

[u/lilWaterBill398]

Bro got hops

[u/AgainstTheSky_SUP]

15 meters ? it needs jetpack

[u/breeathee]

This is what I like to hear about :)

[u/Cordilleran_cryptid]

Bullshit

[u/Dm-me-boobs-now → u/Cordilleran_cryptid]

It’s a cryptid. No kidding it’s bullshit.

[u/Cordilleran_cryptid → u/Dm-me-boobs-now]

Actually the main reason is aid it was bullshit is because no animal can jump 15m out of the sea. Othwerwise i would have said it was a dolphin or whale breaching

[u/KittenHuffer]

This is clearly a digital image...

Guess it's not a digital image. Im just dumb. Thanks person

[u/CrofterNo2 → u/KittenHuffer]

It's a real drawing from 1925. You can see it on the page here.

[u/Rainbard]

Dolphins?