Adrian has been a frequent media presence, leveraging the Loch Ness phenomenon to inspire serious inquiry and make less obvious themes more appealing to the public. Shine is a regarded expert on the subject matter, but this publication does nothing to advance his status.

This book details the sightings, hoaxes, investigations and history behind Loch Ness and its most famous mystery in an objective and scientific manner that demostrates that even the wildest of tales can have some basis in truth, you just have to find what it is.

You have some local reports, you have then, within 2 months in fact a report of a creature on land with a long neck, and a bulky body. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. Nessie, the Yeti and Bigfoot might regarded as the ‘big three’, but why them and not other cryptids or monsters? AS: First of all, there is a stereotype that is neither, which is the water horse or Kelpie, which was a horse-like creature, mammalian I suppose you would say. The paradox for society is that the interest in Loch Ness does not lie only in people seeing things and reporting them, it lies actually in the description and the activities of people like me!

For me there is an interesting paradox in terms of the stereotypes here, because I have perceived two, and they compete. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). AS: There will be a minority of people who would like to believe but there are an even larger group of people who would like their world reconfirmed.Now once you can get beyond the idea of the tourist con, then you get into some quite interesting stuff. We are in quite a civilised country, we have a road, and if you come up here on a holiday, you can stop at a lay-by, and even for five minutes, you can become part of an investigation. In the 1990s, Adrian concentrated on “general scientific work on the environment of Loch Ness, to see what creatures may or may not be in it. His work has evolved to include cooperation with workers from about 20 universities and academic institutions in the UK and overseas.

The exception are mothers with very young children, because for them ‘Nessie’ [waves hands in the air] is an idea similar to the Tooth Fairy, and Santa Clause, and they will claim that we have shattered the child’s illusion. Monsters would be more in a sense, predictable, in terms of geography, I regard Loch Ness, as an accessible mystery.Having sat and waited on the shores of Loch Ness for a decent sighting of the monster since 1991, his commitment to the quest is unparalleled.

Adrian has published several scientific papers pertaining to Loch Ness, has published the book 'Loch Ness', and has been featured in several Loch Ness Monster-related documentaries. But if you maintain that the form of the Loch Ness Monster is informed from outside, I think you are utterly correct. The project created and built the “Swatch ROSETTA” coring equipment, which successfully recovered the whole Holocene sedimentary sequence from the lake bottom at a depth of 200m, setting a UK sample record.Hypothesis advanced for the role of shear induced turbulence in the generation of acoustic reflections from scattering layers.