New Loch Ness Monster Footage captured...

[slipthejab]

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007May...onster,00.html

Man Says He Captured Loch Ness on Film
Thursday, May 31, 2007
By BEN McCONVILLE, Associated Press Writer

EDINBURGH, Scotland — The Loch Ness monster is back _ and there's video. A man has captured what Nessie watchers say is possible footage of the supposed mythical creature beneath Scotland's most mysterious lake.

"I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this jet black thing, about 45 feet long, moving fairly fast in the water," said Gordon Holmes, the 55-year-old a lab technician from Shipley, Yorkshire, who took the video Saturday.

Nessie watcher and marine biologist Adrian Shine viewed the video and hoped to properly analyze it in the coming months.

"I see myself as a skeptical interpreter of what happens in the loch, but I do keep an open mind about these things and there is no doubt this is some of the best footage I have seen," said Shine, of the Loch Ness 2000 center in Drumnadrochit, on the shores of the lake.

Holmes said whatever it was moved at about 6 mph and kept a fairly straight course.

"My initial thought is it could be a very big eel, they have serpent-like features and they may explain all the sightings in Loch Ness over the years."

Loch Ness is surrounded by myth. It's the largest inland body of water in Britain, and at about 750 feet to the bottom, it's even deeper than the North Sea.

"There are a number of possible explanations to the sightings in the loch. It could be some biological creature, it could just be the waves of the loch or it could some psychological phenomenon in as much as we see what we want to see," Shine said.

While many sightings can be attributed to a drop of the local whisky, legends of Scottish monsters date back to one of the founders of the Christian church in Scotland, St. Columba, who wrote of them in about 565 A.D.

More recently, there have been more than 4,000 purported Nessie sightings since she was first caught on camera by a surgeon on vacation in the 1930s.

Since then, the faithful have speculated about it is a completely unknown species, a sturgeon _ even though they have not been native to Scotland's waters for many years _ or even a last surviving dinosaur.

Real or imagined, Nessie has long been a Scottish emblem. She has been the muse for cuddly toys and immortalized on T-shirts and posters showing her classic three-humped image.

On Thursday, a group of Scottish business owners launched a bid to nominate Loch Ness for World Heritage site status _ though they cited its natural beauty, not Nessie. The Destination Loch Ness consortium must submit the nomination to the British government, which would decide whether to forward it to UNESCO.

The Scottish media is skeptical of Nessie stories but Holmes' footage is of such good quality that even the normally reticent BBC Scotland aired the video on its main news program Tuesday.

Love this kind of thing. From the freaks and the charlatans it brings out to the possibility that it could be real and the strange optimism that mankind has in such things.

Anyone get a chance to see this new footage?!

[medi]

I can't view the video for some reason but it's on the right

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/sear...%2Fscotland%2F

[slipthejab]

ah ok... I got it to play when I launched it in a 'stand alone player'.

Hmm...the footage is less than impressive.

It's hard to get any sense of scale because of the camera is so zoomed in. So it's hard to tell if it's an otter/seal or what. I didn't realize they even had otters and seals in those lochs... come to think of it... everything I know about Loch Ness is pretty much what I heard as a kid.

It's almost bottomless.
It's so deep that even radar/sonnar can measure the bottom

[slipthejab]

But did come across this... it was pretty impressive... not as impressive as the Loch Ness monster or anything... but....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/s...ds/6618995.stm

Toad found deep down in Loch Ness

US researchers carrying out a sonar survey of Loch Ness have been amazed to find a common toad crawling in the mud 324ft (98m) down.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been attempting to unravel the mysteries of the loch.

However, MIT said it did not expect to come across the amphibian so far down.

Bob Rines, a lecturer at MIT, will tell the Oceans 07 engineering conference in Aberdeen about the toad and the survey next month.

Conference chairman Professor John Watson, of the University of Aberdeen, said: "They were surprised to find a toad at that depth."

MIT said it had completed a side-scan sonar map of the entire length of the loch - which is about 750ft (228m) at its deepest point.

'Picturesque patterns'

The data has been compared with a geological map of the bottom made by Sir Edward Murray using plumb lines 100 years ago.

The institute said the scan was part of its continuing efforts to find animal remains preserved at the low temperatures at the loch bottom that might explain unusual sightings on the surface.

Professor Watson's presentation to the conference will cover details of how the loch has changed over the past century.

This includes "picturesque patterns" in the silt caused by water pumps for a hydroelectric plant.

[narcsarge]

Yep Slip I saw it!

I too was not that impressed. I have followed all the Discovery Channel and National Geographic explorations of the loch. Though I believe that there are things that mankind has not discovered, the Nessie ain't one of them.

With the amount of $$ and technology that has been thrown about that place it's a wonder they didn't locate Jimmy Hoffa!

[flaming]

I read scientists expect to find a giant sloth. That would be cool.

[Sparx]

While many sightings can be attributed to a drop of the local whisky, legends of Scottish monsters date back to one of the founders of the Christian church in Scotland, St. Columba, who wrote of them in about 565 A.D

That was definatly an otter. I won't beliveit untill we get real footage or they catch the beast.

[Moosey]

Watched the video clip. Now, call me crazy, but is anyone else thinking "giant squid"? Seriously, watch the new clip - that things a giant squid if ever I saw one.

[narcsarge]

I doubt any self-respecting Squid would be caught in a Scottish Lake! Seriously Dr. Moosey! Your tentacled friends have figured out how to fool Scotts by tickling the surface of that Loch with their arms!

[Moosey]

Look! Squid!!!!!

[flaming]

Damn the sloth became extinct ages ago. I hope they find a new species which doesn't look like anything else and is heavier than 20kg.

[narcsarge]

I BELIEVE!

[Hiroji]

Me too Narc!!

Nessy lives!!!

Nessy the locksquid monster!!!

[Yossarian]

I saw this on the local news a few days ago(Loch Ness is just down the road) and personally think its nonsense. Chances are its an otter or something, would be cool if it was a monster though. Good bit of timing finding this footage at the start of the tourist season though.

[narcsarge]

Originally Posted by Yossarian

I saw this on the local news a few days ago(Loch Ness is just down the road) and personally think its nonsense. Chances are its an otter or something, would be cool if it was a monster though. Good bit of timing finding this footage at the start of the tourist season though.

Dr. Moosey has proven that it is a Giant Squid! And WE BELIEVE!

All hail his suction-cupped tentacleness!