The hunt for the Loch Ness monster continues

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00:00 Today we're hunting for the Loch Ness Monster!

00:03 [Music]

00:15 Today is kick-starting our quest weekend here at the Loch Ness Centre

00:19 where for the second year in a row we're hopefully going to uncover some of the mysteries at Loch Ness.

00:24 I think there's a strong possibility that something's out there.

00:27 I mean there's all these eyewitness statements, there's all this

00:30 and no one has ever provided me with any evidence, any proof that Nessie does not exist.

00:35 Probably a very gentle creature.

00:37 Obviously she hasn't wanted to hurt anybody because we haven't heard of any major accidents from Nessie.

00:41 What astrology sign do you think she is?

00:43 A Cancer.

00:44 She's a Cancer.

00:46 Oh I think she's smooth.

00:47 Oh, I think she's smooth.

00:49 They just said a lot of people think that they've seen a lot of big eels and eels are really smooth

00:53 so I'd say she's probably slimy and smooth.

00:55 Like a nice gleam.

00:57 Maybe like a dolphin skin.

00:58 Yeah, yeah.

00:59 Wackiest Stories is by a gentleman called Robert Badger or Brock as he's known

01:04 and it happened in 1971.

01:06 He was in charge of mooring one of the wee research boats called Norwell

01:12 and he was snorkelling at the bay at the time

01:14 and when he was down there they said this huge object passed just in front of him

01:20 and he could see it, it was huge, cylindrical in shape.

01:23 But once he realised what he was looking at

01:25 I mean thank God the water's already brown

01:27 a mad rush, sorry, to the surface and to the pier

01:30 because whatever he thought, was it chasing him?

01:32 Was it going to come after him?

01:34 But nothing like that happened but he was that scared.

01:36 He never went back in the lock again.

01:38 That was the last time he ever went into the lock.

01:40 My first memory to jump out was we saw a long neck and a head sticking out of the water

01:47 and we were watching it and it was rocking back and forth

01:50 and it was fairly substantial.

01:53 So we weren't too far away on the boat so we managed to motor over to it

01:56 and we found it was a tree trunk that was kind of perfectly in the shape of the long neck and the head

02:03 the iconic Loch Ness image

02:05 and it was just gently rocking in the waves

02:08 but I've still got photos of it and you'd be convinced it was the Loch Ness monster.

02:15 Well the screen on the right is an echo sounder and it's tracking the depth for us

02:20 so it's using sonar to measure the depth.

02:23 So the depth is the number on the top left so right now 225 meters

02:28 so that's almost 750 feet

02:31 and then you see that long flat line on the bottom of the screen

02:34 that is the bottom of Loch Ness.

02:37 Now we're sailing along the middle

02:39 the middle is completely flat as we can see and that's kind of unusual.

02:44 The white area though is the water

02:47 and we're going a little bit fast at the moment

02:49 but we're picking up some of the fish that we have in Loch Ness

02:52 so we can see the little red dots

02:55 you know fish kind of 30 centimeters on average kind of size.

02:59 If we were to see a monster it's going to be a big red dot

03:02 about the size of your fingernail in that white area.

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