Loch Ness Monster

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Loch Ness Monster
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Where is Loch Ness?

• Located in the Scottish highlands
• Called the Great Glen, rift valley 60 miles long
  and contains 3 famous lochs, Lochy, Oich and Ness
  
• Loch ness is part of the great fissure that
  splits Scotland in half
• 24 mile long and a maximum of 1.5 miles wide
• Maximum depth is 750 ft.
• Loch ness has never been known to freeze

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The monster legend

• Although largely undocumented, but a very
  important Scottish tradition
• Saint Columba is credited in bringing
  Christianity to Scotland
• He was the first to have documented seeing
  Nessie in the water after saving a mans life
  from a monster of the water
• This happened in 565 A.D.
• Little has actually been recorded until the 20th
  century
• It was after 1933 when a road was built along the
  lake shore and people were able to visit that
  sightings were really being recorded

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Sightings

• Mackays Campbell 1933
• Mackay owned a pub and saw an enormous animal
  in the loch
• He told a local fisherman, Campbell, who then
  proceeded to say he had seen Nessie a number of
  times
• Campbell described it as 30 ft. long, long
  tapering neck, small head and a serpentine look
  about it

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Sightings continued

• The famous Hugh Gray photo was taken in 1933
• He claimed to have seen the monster in the water
  and grabbed for his camera
• It turned out to be a hoax that involved many
  people
• In 1993, one of the hoax participants, Christain
  Spurling admitted on his death bed it was a hoax
• He helped make a model out of a toy submarine and
  photographed it
• He had helped 2 men that were hired to find the
  monster, Ian Wetherell and his father Duke
• It was taken so seriously that they dare not tell
  anyone it was a hoax

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Sightings continued

• Arthur Grant, a vet student claimed to have see
  Nessie crossing the road in front of him in 1934
• His description matched a Plesiosaurus
• Small head, long neck, big body, flippers and a
  tail
• The Plesiosaurus, a relative of the dinosaur, has
  been extinct for some 65 million years
• Sonar sweeps were done in 1970 by the American
  Academy of Applied Sciences, funded by Dr. Robert
  Rines used sonar and automatic cameras
• 1972 their cameras photographed what appeared to
  be about 6 ft long flipper

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Sightings continued

• More recently, mini submarines have been used to
  try and find Nessie, but with no success
• 1987, 20 subs swept the loch with sonar equipment
  bouncing sound waves from the surface to the
  bottom
• They recorded any contacts
• Many salmon were found, but no Nessie
• However, the waters are deep enough and big
  enough to hide such a creature!!!

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Today anyone can visit Loch Ness!
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Sources

• www.lonelyplanet.com/mapimages/europe/scotland/sco
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• www.scotland-flavour.co.uk
• www.qsl.net/w5wwww/nessie.html
• www.scotland-calling.com/loch-ness-monster.htm