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Loch Ness Information Whatever you feel about his evidence, and I know many disagree with my own analysis, this really is a sad day for Loch Ness. His charisma in the seventies and eighties excited so many people. Rines is on the left of this image during the prime of his hunting days. With him are Tim Dinsdale (rear) and Marty Klein with one of his sonar tow fish.
Loch Ness Information There were more press at the Operation Deepscan press conference than at the Gorbachev/Reagan summit in Iceland that same year.
Loch Ness Information The monster in the pond at the Loch Ness Centre was towed by Scot II for the end of the Paul Daniels' Magic Show. It broke a flipper in the process, which had to be repaired at the Caley Cruisers boat yard. When I had it made in 1984 it was too wide to travel by road unaccompanied so had a police escort all the way to the loch from its birth place in Harrogate, Yorkshire. Does this mean Nessie is English?
Loch Ness Information Sorry John, I regret that the "sparkling bagpiper" died earlier this year. See item 79 on my news page here: http://www.Loch-Ness.com/news.html.
John A. Kissel I miss Inverness, but Drumnadrochet (sp) I miss more. Loved searching for Nessy, not many people can. Sparkling bagpiper on the way to the castle on the Loch, hanks!
Loch Ness Information Inver means "confluence of" or "mouth of", hence Inverness, mouth of the Ness; Invergarry, Invermoriston etc. But what about Invergordon? There is no River Gordon, so what mouth does the Inver refer to? Could it be Gordon Ramsay's?
Loch Ness Information There were more press at the Operation Deepscan press conference than at the Gorbachev/Reagan summit in Iceland that same year.
Loch Ness Information Contrary to the Loch Ness Encyclopaedia entry, Lawrence Lockhart's low budget Loch Ness Monster Research Exhibition, which was located close to Inverness Station in the early eighties, did not amalgamate with the Official Exhibition.
Loch Ness Information Daylight at Loch Ness in the middle of June can extend from 3am to 11pm. In mid-winter it is 9.30am to 3.30pm!
Loch Ness Information Dan Taylor was building a new yellow submarine called Nessa, capable of 20 knots when he died. At 20 knots visibility underwater in Loch Ness is one sixth of a second, but this did not deter Dan. He had originally come to Loch Ness in 1969 with his fibreglass submarine Viperfish. This picture shows Nessa. His family are looking for a permanent home for it? Any offers?
Loch Ness Information When asked whether she had seen the monster, one of Frank Searle's girl Fridays said, "The only monster I've seen around here is Frank Searle!"
Loch Ness Information Underwater flash cameras used in Loch Ness monster research suffer from back-scatter caused by the peat particles suspended in the loch. This picture was taken in Loch Ness with a 40,000 ASA film developed by Charles Wycoff specially for the purpose. The problem, of course, is that there is so much back-scatter that the picture is as good as useless. You can just make out a diver, but that is all. No details.
Loch Ness Information Tim Dinsdale was aboard the Goodyear airship during the expedition in 1982 in conjunction with the Loch Ness Project in order to determine how far into the loch someone could see looking vertically from an air ship. Less than twelve feet was the disappointing, but predictable answer and that was a highly reflective dustbin (trashcan) lid.
Loch Ness Information After Operation Deepscan the project used a vessel called Ecos for Loch Ness Research and then one called Deepscan which still runs boat trips in the tourist season. The photograph shows Adrian Shine on Deepscan during a special tour I organised for Ranil Wickremesinghe when he was Sri Lankan Prime Minister. For exclusive and VIP Scottish Highland tours see http://www.InvernessTours.com.
Loch Ness Information John Murray carried out the first bathymetrical survey of Loch Ness in 1901. Adrian Shine called his forty foot inflatable catamaran, designed for silent drift sonar patrols, John Murray. It operated during 1981 and its results inspired future work aboard the Phyllis and shore base stations right up until Operation Deepscan.
