# Did the submersible 'DSV Alvin' spot a living plesiosaur? - Tags: cryptozoology - Score: 14 - Views: 5,513 - Answers: 1 - Asked by: user53407 - Asked on: Apr 29, 2021 - Last active: Apr 29, 2021 - License: CC BY-SA 4.0 --- ## Question Famed paranormal author [Charles Berlitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Berlitz) wrote a 1977 book, _Without a Trace_, in which he claimed that a Captain Marvin McCamis claimed to have seen a plesiosaur-like sea creature from a submarine, _[DSV Alvin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Alvin)_ at 300 ft: > "...I was astonished to see a thick body with flippers, a long neck, a snakelike head with two eyes looking right at us. It looked like a big lizard with flippers - it had two sets of them. Then it swam upwards with its back turned before we could get the cameras angled. They were set to photograph 15 to 25 feet in front of the submarine and the thing had already swum out of the camera angle but was still around." Did this research submersible spot a living plesiosaur at only 300 feet? --- ## Answer 1 — Score: 53 - By: Oddthinking (149,035 rep) - Answered on: Apr 29, 2021 On one hand, it disappoints me that we are still debunking