Story of the Loch Ness Monster

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First JARIC tell us that the material examined was the original 16mm film and that no copies have been made. We must remember that Tim sent them the film with the instructions that it was not for projection under any circumstances so JARIC never even run the film. Looking at the rainfall for June 1960 (when Burton was there), the figure was 78.5mm. That gives a rainfall increase of 70.6mm. Comparing this with other monthly differentials makes it the 41st highest climb in rainfall out of 1000+ data points. That would suggest that Mr. O 'Connor's camp fire was going to be submerged. It was decided to compare the action of a boat on the Loch to the object that Dinsdale had filmed, following the same direction and about the same speed as the object had been observed to do.

The target was Maurice Burton. I think i can safely say the target was hit. Final point and overall reply rejected. Thanks to commentary penned by Witchell (1974, 1989*), we know a fair bit about events specific to that night. Remember that the early 70s were an incredibly optimistic time for those involved in the hunt for Nessie, and Witchell wrote about these high spirits. “I well remember the boat crews’ excitement early on the morning of 8 August when they came ashore with the sonar chart which showed the activity below them”, he wrote (Witchell 1989, p. 145). There was then a wait “while the Academy [the AAS] went home to examine the film”, and a sense of excitement and accomplishment. “Surely, we thought, this would stir the scientific establishment”, Witchell (1974, p. 145) continued. You do not, after all, abandon a comfortably ordinary lifestyle in Dorset to live in a van that has seen better days on the edge of Loch Ness, in often-brutal weather, unless you are a few pennies short of a pound (he is, but only in the literal sense). You do not, unless you are seriously round the twist, publicise a passionate belief in the existence of the Loch Ness monster. And however deranged you might be, you surely do not spend eight years doing little else but sitting on a beach in the hope that the elusive beast might show you its humps. Or do you? In his response, Scott (again, no sign of contributing authorship from Rines) argued that Halstead et al.’s (1976) proclamations about plesiosaurs ignored all sort of complexities and possibilities that might have arisen during plesiosaur evolution, and also that his 1975 paper had never included the word plesiosaur anyway, ha ha. Scott (1976c) went on to dispute the Viking ship suggestion, his main counterpoint being that the photos were taken in mid-water, not at the bottom… something that wasn’t entirely true (read on). But he was right that this was a pretty desperate suggestion. SIR – I was a local councillor and ran a campaign to prevent commuters from as far away as Camberley parking round our train station in Sunningdale, which had a speedy service to London. It took five years to get double-yellow lines on the A30 and other local roads. Some now know me as Mr Yellow Line.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. Should the object be at the claimed distance of 75 feet, then the camera would have to be 35feet above the water level to account for the geometry of the ripples. Indeed, the first ever mention of Tim Dinsdale in a monster context is in an article by Burton in 1959 when he makes reference to Dinsdale's analysis of the best sightings - an analysis which later made it into Dinsdale's book. Some commentators seem content just to criticise the length of the article, its writing style and try to draw negative psychological conclusions from it. Well, that's nice, but I was more interested in the logical arguments I was making about how scepticism approached the photo in the form of Maurice Burton. SIR – BBC News at Six blames “the Conservative Government ” every time it finds something to criticise, but when it reported Birmingham City Council’s bankruptcy, it never once mentioned that it is Labour-controlled.

Perhaps Burton was afraid that O' Connor would sue him for calling him a hoaxer? That seems to be the suggestion in communications I had with another researcher. Burton claimed O' Connor threatened to sue him if he said anything against him or Dinsdale; so Burton said he pulled this account. But this is just nonsense, don't the other objections to the photo made in his book make that same accusation and Dinsdale certainly did not escape Burton's withering analysis? So, let's just conclude that Burton's lawsuit reason is actually no more than an excuse! The sensational result of Dinsdale's Expedition was to inspire an extraordinary revival of the mystery and trigger two decades of intensive surveillance of the loch's baffling surface. [22] Beautiful, Big, Bold Dinosaur Books: of Molina-Pérez and Larramendi’s Theropods, Rey’s Extreme Dinosaurs 2, and Parker et al.’s SaurianIn summary, the equipment used could not have produced a flash exposure of a subject (whatever that subject indeed was) at the distance claimed, but instead the picture should have shown the subject and it's surroundings lit mainly by ambient (sun) light.

A Review of Robert L. France’s Disentangled: Ethnozoology and Environmental Explanation of the Gloucester Sea Serpent You spent the next few weeks complaining and getting nowhere, so you decided to write to me as a last resort. Within days of my intervention, UPS miraculously found a parcel it believed to be yours. Maitland, P. S., 1981. The Ecology of Scotland’s Largest Lochs: Lomond, Awe, Ness, Morar and Shiel. The Hague: Junk.Heuvelmans, B., 1958a. Dans le sillage des monsters marine. Le Kraken et la Poulpe Colossal. Paris: Plon. What about the pump nozzle? Well, what about it? I take a pump nozzle with me when I camp at Loch Ness every year. However, it is not used for any sinister purpose. I use it to inflate the airbeds we sleep on! They had inflatable camp beds in 1960 which were pretty much similar to what we have today. Again, there is nothing sinister here which does not have a simpler, more innocent explanation. A statement which has nothing to do with the main argument, so we class this as deflection. Again, the commenter says my argument is weak but offers no logic or data as to why. Sixth point rejected. 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? He said, however, that no giant eels have ever been caught. And when it was pointed out that the record catch for a European eel is 5.38kg, Gemmell said: “It doesn’t sound like a monster, does it? But based on the evidence we’ve accumulated, we can’t exclude it as a possibility.”

Peoples opinions began to change and credibility of the possible existence of the monster grew as the Daily Mirror printed a story on the film on 13th June 1960. The BBC also broadcast the film the very same day using 35mm film which enhanced picture detail and contrast. This was all a prelude to the formation of the Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau which would mount annual expeditions to the loch from 1962 and for the next ten years. An era which is receding in the rear view mirror as its participants pass away and we look to more complex techniques to finally solve this mystery.

Dear Telegraph: no, I did not say that about the Loch Ness monster, July 2011 (now missing all images due to hosting issues) Tim had to make adecision; he decided to stop and savethelast precious feet of film. He raced down thenarrow road toreach the loch side, hoping the animal would resurface. This timehe wouldbe close enough to capture the creature in clear, indisputable detail. The writer of the article makes some weak overall claim about sceptics, as though they are a homogenous group all behaving in exactly the same way." The scoftic reads your arguments with two desired outcomes in view. The first is a concious attempt to find fault with your article. I am nine years old and my mum is a GP. On the days she works I barely get to see her because of the hours she puts in.