Latest Nessie News: New Sonar Evidence

Source: Dateline Zero and Loch Ness Mystery.

There’s a little more Nessie activity following the recent picture taken by a fish farmer, and a sighting of “a long neck.” This latest story involves a sonar contact, and was reported on in the Scottish edition of the Daily Mail for Thursday 15th September 2011. There’s more about the the recent picture HERE, and an article detailing the long neck sighting can be found at Loch Ness Mystery.

I was hunting around for the source story to link to and found out via Ghost Theory that The Daily Mail only printed the story and not posted the photos online. Whatever. That’s how I found this great blog, Loch Ness Mystery, which confirmed that this story “did not make the UK website of the Mail, so it is reproduced here for those outside of Scotland.”

So I’ll link to the blog, where you can read the full article, transcribed, online. Take that, Mail. *shakes fist*

Surrounded by fish, the ‘blip’ has a girth of about 5ft, though there is no way of estimating its length as it was moving. The image was captured by the quick thinking skipper of a pleasure boat who took a picture of the reading while waiting for his customers at Urquhart Castle, in Inverness-shire. Marcus Atkinson, 42, knows Loch Ness like the back of his hand and spends every day on its waters — but said he had never seen anything like this before.

He added: It’s very weird. It was obvious it wasn‘t a shoal of fish and it just kept getting bigger and bigger. This thing is completely different from anything I’ve seen before.’ Mr Atkinson, of Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire, was idling in the bay when he saw the unusual sonar image. He said: ‘it’s one of those moments where you just think, “What on earth is that?” I grabbed my mobile phone and took a picture before it disappeared of the screen. it’s all very bizarre.‘ Mr Atkinson’s picture shows a cross-section of the loch, with the boat itself at the top right of the picture.
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Expert Nessie hunter Steve Feltham said: ‘This is a sonar contact that defies all explanation — it’s a huge object. ‘it’s fascinating, because the camera hasn’t an imagination — it just shows what’s there.’

Full Daily Mail article available at: lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2011/09/latest-nessie-sonar-contact.html