DrumnadrochitcDirOverride:> Is there really a sea monster living in Loch Ness? What is being called the biggest search for Nessie in decades has begun in Scotland to find out.
In pouring rain, dozens of volunteers from all over the world descended on Loch Ness over the weekend, 90 years after the first alleged sighting of the creature.
Seven-year-old Rowan, who was in Scotland with his parents on holiday, told DPA that he is sure Nessie is a plesiosaur. But many other hunters are sure the creature is something other than a dinosaur. “It’s something fish-like, maybe an amphibian,” Roland Watson, a blogger who writes about Loch Ness, said on Saturday.
Watson was among the dozens of volunteers who joined the search effort on Saturday at Loch Ness, a lake in the Scottish Highlands that’s 36km long and up to 2.7km wide.
Volunteers positioned themselves at 17 observation posts around the lake on Saturday morning to watch for any movement or strange waves. Boats with special technology such as a hydrophone - a kind of underwater microphone to detect acoustic signals - cruised the water.
Legends of an elusive monster in the vast, 230-metre-deep lake date from at least the time of St Columba, who is said to have tamed the beast after it snatched a servant in 565 AD. (DPA)
