Remember: everything Caspian The Octopus Merman says is made up.

*you is walking around on a secluded part of the beach, collecting shells and relaxing as they walk where the swash of the water hits the sand. As they come upon an area of beach that is shielded from view by rocks, they hear someone, or something, struggling. They cautiously make their way around the rocks to see something surprising, a merman.. octoman? He seems to be caught in a net and stranded on shore.*