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From: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (B Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.misc,sci.research
Subject: Re: The Loch Ness Monster
Keywords: Nessie Loch Ness Hallucinations Elasmosaur
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Date: 27 Jul 88 16:30:39 GMT
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In article <861@altger.UUCP> Macros@altger.UUCP (Macros) writes:
>A short while ago I once again read something about the infamous Loch Ness
>Monster. Unfortunatly it was an article dated back from 1977.
>
>Does any one have something newer?

>What I'd especially like to know about is the photographic material
>that was published in MITs Technology Review in Spring 1976 and the film
>made in 1972 by the Jet Propulsion Labs, which are supposed to show fins 
>and even a head of one or more 
>creatures under water, but could just as well be the rudder of a sunken
>ship ( a viking ship, with its dragon head on the bow was mentioned in
>the article).

The most recent publication concerning the inhabitants of
Loch Ness was a book demonstrating the existance of a colony
of seals in the loch. Many people doubted that they existed
because the loch is fresh water, and seals are normally only
found in salt water.

The motions of seals skimming in and out of the water is
said to account for the humps of the traditional monster.
A lot of the photographs of the monster could be of seals
instead, especially the famous underwater diamond shaped fin
one mentioned above.

Seals couldn't however explain the strange sonar contacts
found by the sonar mapping expedition last year. No seal is
forty foot long.
	Bob.