DM_Loch+Ness

Type in the content of your. Monster of Loch Ness **Loch Ness is 23 Miles long, 1 Mile wide and averages 700 feet deep, with some parts going down to 754 feet. Visibility is almost zero, due to the peat content of the water.**  **There either is a "Monster" or there is not. To prove there is no monster is more difficult than proving there is one. Think about it. If there is no monster, how do you prove this? Searches that do not get any results can be dismissed as being unlucky. They searched too small an area, they did not search for long enough, the way they searched frightened the monster off. Just because the search gets no results, does not mean there is no monster. Thus, the continuation of the Loch Ness phenomenon is** Although I would like to be proven wrong, and still hope some good evidence is found, I'm 90% sure the Monster does not exist. At various times there may be large fish, seals, otters or Sturgeon, which have been mistaken for a monster. It would take a book to explain why I don't think there is a monster. The fact is that over recent years all of the major evidence has been explained. The surgeons picture, the flipper picture, the head and neck and gargoyle head pictures, Tim Dinsdale's film, the 1982 sonar contacts, the 1987 operation Deepscan contact. The SONAR evidence has taken so long to find false because the unique shape of the loch (sides and bed) does strange things to SONAR that doesn't happen in many places. Not to mention the rotten vegetation on the bottom releasing methane gas bubbles that look like strong moving SONAR contacts. According to Roy Mackel in his book "The Monsters of Loch Ness" 85% of "good" eyewitness reports take place in early morning, just the time when the weather conditions make visibility the most deceptive on the loch, making common wildlife look larger. One piece of evidence that is not mentioned very often is way in which the number of sightings seem to go down the more the Loch is watched and visited. With many more people carrying cameras nowadays, we would expect the number of pictures of Nessie to rise in proportion to the number of visitors. In fact the reverse is true. We have less pictures in recent years than were presented in the early years. After the A82 was opened in 1933, giving much easier access, the number of sightings increased, and this is when the whole story really begins. The Chairman of Eagle star insurance, Sir Edward Mountain, was so interested in all the sightings that he hired 20 men to watch round the circumference of the loch in July 1934 for 5 weeks. None of the photographs showed anything conclusive. Sir Edward eventually hinted that the Monster was probably a gray seal. In the Sixties when the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau maintained a constant look out over the summer months, the number of sightings and photographs were less than for any 10 year period before this. In 1962 The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau was formed to act as a research organization and clearing house for information about the creature. In the beginning it only conducted research for a few week in the year, but by 1964 they established a more permanent presence around the Loch. Eventually the Bureau established camera stations with both still and cinema cameras with telephoto lenses. They had vans which served as mobile camera stations, and underwater listening devises. Searches were conducted using hot-air-balloons and infrared night time cameras, sonar scanners and submarines. A great deal of information was discovered about the Loch, but they have yet to produce any concrete evidence of a monster.