As you can see, the loch level can differ substantially even after two days. The water level of the loch can go up and down according to the inflow of waters from its many rivers and streams. In fact, it can go up or down by as much as seven feet. My simple contention is that O' Connor built a campfire that subsequently was submerged by rising loch levels.

Cronch Cats, Beasts of Gévaudan, Dinosauroids, Mesozoic Art and Much More: TetZooMCon 2021 in Review Dinsdale, T. 1975. Project Water Horse: the True Story of the Monster Quest at Loch Ness. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. Nevertheless, Dr Burton would have to produce evidence for the existence of the all too easily found polythene bag before I would believe him.

Photographs of the Loch Ness Monster

He added: “Like every other monster hunt there has been here at Loch Ness, we have found no definitive evidence of a monster. More and more studies providing more and more negative evidence cast more and more doubt on the possibility, but we can’t prove a negative.” Bauer, H. B., 1987. Society and scientific anomalies: common knowledge about the Loch Ness Monster. Journal of Scientific Exploration, I, 51–74. They didn't give me an answer, thwy gave me their opinion. I said I would hold it for an upcoming article and include/critique it, but if you're so impatient, I'll quote it here. So, it is no surprise this " convincing" reproduction has never been published and I wager never shall. What we do have is a truly awful reproduction that Burton made at Loch Ness and had published in the Illustrated London News dated July 23rd 1960. This article was essentially a report on his week's trip to Loch Ness.

In Tim's book he gives us lengths of 50ft, 20ft to 30ft and then a time of 4 minutes. None of these can be correct unless the film has been cut which leaves us to ask what has been cut from the film.50ft of 16mm cine film runs for 83 seconds. I have never seen more than 60 seconds of this film. The same can be said for his 20ft to 30ft of film, this would give a maximum of 50 seconds of film time and the 4 minutes of film is just impossible. In the memory of the example set by Tim Dinsdale, the Society for Scientific Exploration has established the Tim Dinsdale Memorial Award to honour individuals for their "significant contributions to the expansion of human understanding through the study of unexplained phenomena." In the light of all this, fellow sceptic, Steuart Campbell, wrote to him in preparation for his 1986 book, " The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence". Burton gave a fuller account of his alleged trip to O' Connor's location which was summarised by Campbell: Christopher and Jeffrey Hunter, members of the LNIB, filmed something diving in the waters of Loch Ness. It was the 23rd of August 1967 and conditions were calm but hazy. Experts said it resembled a bird. A Review of Robert L. France’s Disentangled: Ethnozoology and Environmental Explanation of the Gloucester Sea Serpent

The Water Horses of Loch Ness

I was the classics scholar on the team and immediately phoned Sir Peter to point out that the Greek word adámas referred to hardness and not shape, and advised him to change to rhombopteryx. Other examples are Sadiq Khan’s administration in London and the government in Wales. Labour cannot manage money – except to insist on more for less. Well, the book says nothing about what I asked and Robert's terse reply suggested he thought there was nothing to add beyond it. I would agree with that, there is nothing to add against the O' Connor picture beyond the 1961 book. Guide Number for PF5 flashbulb with 200 ASA film (HP3) = 330 @ 1/50th sec. (using feet as distance measurement). A clue may lie in an article Burton wrote for the Sunday Express on the 2nd August 1959 entitled " Is there really a Loch Ness Monster?". In this article,

Jones, R. I., 2001. Sources and fluxes of inorganic carbon in a deep, oligotrophic lake (Loch Ness, Scotland). Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 5, 863–870. In July 1987, at the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh, The Society for the History of Natural History and the International Society for Cryptozoology held a symposium on "The Search for Nessie in the 1980s"; the reception given there to Dinsdale's election to Honorary Membership of the ISC testified to the wide-spread affection and respect that he had gained. Dinsdale had become synonymous with the quest at Loch Ness, respected universally for his sterling qualities even by those who had scant respect for the significance of the quest itself - as attested, for example by the obituary in The Times. Dinsdale's own words are perhaps his most appropriate epigraph:"The cost has been great - at a private level seemingly impossible to meet in time and money, and yet, in meeting it, by some strange alchemy I am the richer for it, and my family no less independent. George, D. G., 1993. The Life in the Loch. Project Urquhart: The Scientific Exploration of Loch Ness.

How to Investigate a Loch Ness Monster Sighting

You still haven’t had a proper explanation of this parcel’s disappearance and where it was for 45 days. Like so much surrounding the Loch Ness monster, it remains a mystery. Heuvelmans, B., 1958a. Dans le sillage des monsters marine. Le Kraken et la Poulpe Colossal. Paris: Plon. Unfortunately, closing ranks does nothing for critical thinking and that problem continues today when you see sceptical forums which are more dedicated to bashing " believers" than critiquing the barmiest of arguments that lightweight sceptics post. Self regulation appears not to work in these instances.

What hit the world's press resembled a floating tree trunk, apparently captured on July 27, 1972, at nearby Balachladoich but monster lovers everywhere felt assured he had produced compelling evidence. A huge media debate resulted, with naturalist Sir Peter Scott even suggesting that whatever might be in the loch could be "a plesiosaur". For the Loch Ness tourism industry, Christmas arrived early that year. Baynham-Herd, Z. 2020. Presenting endangerment: Peter Scott, conservation, and the Loch Ness Phenomena. Environmental Humanities 12: 1, 370-387. Timothy Kay Dinsdale (27 September 1924 – 14 December 1987) was a British cryptozoologist who attempted to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. [1] [2] Life [ edit ]I suppose obsession is one way of describing it. But the way I see it, this is such a small country we're living in and we now understand just about every inch of it. Well, this is something we don't have an explanation for. It's inevitable that we have to admit there's something unexplained in Loch Ness. I have to accept that the first thing I film probably isn't going to be the final piece of evidence. I'll carry on until the mystery is solved - until we've got to the bottom of it." Maybe, though, it's more love affair than obsession - one that began when a seven-year-old boy arrived in Loch Ness on a family holiday in 1970. He went to the local exhibition with his father, who bought him a Nessie portfolio as a souvenir. That was all it took. In other words, it is a straw man argument and one easily spotted by myself (since I am the one being criticised), though others may think it valid. It is not. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Or perhaps there are unseen issues here? It's a no-brainer to print all these revelations, but instead we have to wait another eight years to see anything about it in print. Is this an " epic fail" to quote the vernacular? Here’s one for Nessie enthusiasts and cryptozoologists everywhere: a documentary about the monster-hunting frenzy at Loch Ness in the 1970s and 80s. “It was a race! It was zoological Mount Everest!” remembers one hunter. Someone else recalls reading that discovering the Loch Ness monster would be bigger than the moon landing. There’s even an old clip of David Attenborough on Michael Parkinson’s chat show discussing – with not a trace of scepticism – the search for a creature lurking in the deep dark waters.