THE SNAKE PIT 1STĀ EDITION 2016 (Friday, April 15, 2016)
Has the Loch Ness monster officially been found?
I woke to a very exciting day as the mythological creature that frustrated Scottish farmers with firearms and fishnets have been trying to re discover for years has finally been found…the Loch Ness Monster. That’s right since that iconic photograph of ‘Nessie’ popping in head up for a breather in the 1930’s he has been, well pretty quiet; a lot of cheesy films in that time have been made but never has been an actual special guest appearance by the real ‘Nessie’…well not that we know of at least.Ā AĀ deep-water sonar-imaging scan shows theĀ Loch Ness monster has finally been found. The shape is exactly the same as the actual monster and the size matches up precisely to estimates, so is this the mythological creature?
I woke to a very exciting day as the mythological creature that frustrated Scottish farmers with firearms and fishnets have been trying to re discover for years has finally been found…the Loch Ness Monster. That’s right since that iconic photograph of ‘Nessie’ popping in head up for a breather in the 1930’s he has been, well pretty quiet; a lot of cheesy films in that time have been made but never has been an actual special guest appearance by the real ‘Nessie’…well not that we know of at least.Ā AĀ deep-water sonar-imaging scan shows theĀ Loch Ness monster has finally been found. The shape is exactly the same as the actual monster and the size matches up precisely to estimates, so is this the mythological creature?
Well an expedition led by offshore oil company Kongsberg Maritime and supported by The Loch Ness Project and Visit Scotland went to uncover the remains. The remains of a 30-foot Loch Ness Monster model used in the 1970 film “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.” The images were captured by the Munin marine robot, which also located the remains of a 27-foot shipwreck at the bottom of the Loch, but no one seemed to care about the sunken ship but instead of the huge model of the Loch Ness. And although it is not the real ‘Nessie’ you wonder whether it would be good tactical bait for the real ‘Nessie’? Just imagine the poor monster, if you were lonely for that long you wouldn’t mind some company…or is ‘nessie’ really alone. Maybe his family down in Atlantis city with Ogopogo, champ and Big Foot?
The film was plagued with technical issues, the director, who had also been dogged with problems lighting scenes at Loch Ness, had a new monster made – but just its head and neck – and moved the filming to a large water tank in the film studio.
The Nessie model is worth an estimated $110 million to the Scottish economy, with hundreds of thousands of visitors travelling to Loch Ness every year in the hope of catching a glimpse of the mythical serpent.
Perhaps the neck in the iconic 1934 photograph is simply the trunk of a tree that had fallen into the water and was drifting in the lake. A tree with the stump attached will commonly float vertically in the water because the stump and roots have a higher density and sink first. The roots could have easily had rocks trapped among them so that the tree floated in a vertical position. Or perhaps the British had a surveillance submarine to monitor their influence in Scotland and subsequently have created billions of pound, which will go to the British government, or itās another mythological creature.
The most probable method used to fake the Loch Ness Monster picture was with a toy size carving. The waves surrounding the creature are not in the correct proportion for a large monster. Small waves are affected more by the surface tension of the water than large waves. The surface tension effect is clearly seen in this photograph. Therefore, the waves are very small, and the photograph was taken within 3 feet (1 meter) of the subject, but hey the locals seem to like how tourists pay to see an empty lake.
But I think itās important to believe in a myth, it creates endless possibilities and conspiracies; and in general it entices the people because people are intrigued in things that they donāt know much about, certainly creates a lot of debate about aliens and sea creatures.
Michael Serpell
