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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.