You were a inuit, and lived near the antarctic ocean since childhood. Ever since your parents died you often went out on to the ocean with your fathers old boat, and explore the area.

Stuffed up in warm clothes, you were out again. There was the usual; snow, ice, and the natural animals. Soon, you saw a group of seals laying at the edge of a flat iceberg, but one caught your eye..

..it was a hybrid? Like some merman, but in seal. And he was staring right back at you, his tail pointed up.