ZX Time #04 17 ноября 2001

about everything about everything - "In Search of Nessie."

In search of Nessie


                             Peter Ivanov


         Reprint from newspaper

      "The world of hobbies. Unbelievable."


  Loch Ness is zagadachnoe place
located in the highlands of Scotland and
surrounded by sheer cliffs, towering at 2000 feet, it is one
of the three great lakes, have great
Valley, a huge rift that separates the North of Scotland from 
the rest part of the British Isles.



  The area of ​​the lake bottom around 14,000 acres, and
depth in some places reaches 900
feet. Loch Ness is the largest
source of fresh water in Britain and
the third largest in Europe. And this is truly a great lake 
poses a great puzzles. In these dark waters, opaque due to the 
peat bottom, it was noticed huge monster, like those that

became extinct about 100 million years ago.


  Now the Loch Ness monster - the most
famous in the world of the supernatural
monster, besides a fairly regular basis
appears, but the story did not reach the pages of newspapers 
until 1933. In May of that year, Mr. Alexander Shaw and his son 
stood on the lawn at Whitefield Hausa, when they saw ripples in 
the distance 500 yards, then came something resembling the 
animal's back. All this happened about Urkuhart Castle, right 
in front of them. Both were told that they had seen something 
long and meandering, and then Water shot up, flown apart spray

as if struck by her huge tail.
Then a gigantic monster noticed
Clement family of Temple Piera about Dramnedrochita (not 
opechataka, and the real name:))) - approx. ed.). Mr. Thomas 
Clement said that animal was 40 feet long, with four fins and 
shoulder a long neck with small tubercles. May 28 creature 
appeared again, this time around Cherry Island. Mrs. Nora 
Simpson watched him from a distance of about 45 feet For 10 
minutes, then the animal gone under water. Mrs Simpson told the 
same thing as the family Clement. 


  Happy July 22 Mr George Spicer,
director of a London-based company, was driving
with his wife in a car along the coast in Foyers. Shortly after 
they passed Whitefield, from the thickets that were on the left 
hand, there was a huge long-necked animal that crossed the road 
and disappeared in the water. Wife flatly refused to recognize 
that they all thought it, or that they have seen some 
well-known animals such as horses. 


  Soon there were other witnesses who claimed they saw an 
animal walking across the land, and because it often was 
observed in the lake, it was possible to assume that he has a 
pretty a large area. The news of a possible sensation reached 
the House of Commons, and Bertrand Mills Circus offered 20,000 
pounds for capture the monster alive. In November it

took a new turn after
Mr. Hugh Gray was able to remove the creature in
film from the hill by the lake
About Foyers. Gray confirmed the information about the 
appearance of a giant, and experts from Kodak, making sure the 
negatives, said that they are genuine. Just over a month

later, on 12 December, a group of chroniclers
Scottish film studio managed to shoot,
how animals move in shallow water
About Inverferigeyga. The monster who was on the distance of 
1200 yards from the nearest camera, turned right, and sailed 
away and disappeared from sight, diving into the water. Most 
likely, more animals most of the time under water and is a 
reptile that is confirmed by numerous testimonies of its long 
neck. 


  As always, the majority of scientists were
skeptical. When a zoologist from
University of Glasgow, Professor Graeme
Kerry showed pictures of Hugh Gray, he
stated that they "do not prove that it
creature "and another expert,
Dzh.R.Norman of the British Museum, suggested that the photo 
captured "bottlenose whale, some sort of Sharks or no wreckage. 
"Some scientists thought that the dark objects that appear 
regularly on the surface of the lake, just sunken tree trunks, 
which emerged under the influence of gas resulting from the 
natural process of decomposition, and the director of London 
Zoo aquarium EG Boulinger convinced that "the case with the 
Loch Ness monster is noteworthy only as a striking example of 
mass hallucination. " 


  Although scientists continue to claim that
Nessie - stories that charmed the audience trusting charlatans 
and greedy for sensation of newspapermen, a monster is still

made itself felt. By the time the
Rupert Good, a retired Marine
officer, has published his story about his own meeting with the 
mysterious creature in June 1934, already had 47 different 
certificates from 69 eyewitnesses.



  Since the first appearance of Nessie interest in fantasy 
snake from Ness not only not abated, but increased. Every year 
the story is cluttered with new and new details, witness 
statements and photographs. According to some sources, at 
present day recorded about 3000 certificates. Moreover, in 
recent years increased the likelihood that the existence of a 
strange animal in the dark waters Lake will be proved.



  In 1969 the team news from the British independent 
television, using the sonar recorded a steady signal for two 
minutes. Object was like a big animal. In the following, in 
1970 flatbed scanner device, invented by engineer Martin

Klein, spotted a submarine moving
objects whose size is 50 times the size of the largest fish 
inhabiting the lake. In 1972, underwater camera, which is 
activated sonar, fixing fluctuations

reproduced part of the scaly body of a strange creature on the 
length at least 8 feet. Three years later

similar device, installed the Boston hunter monsters Robert
Rhines, gave the image a long curved neck and torso convex 
reptiles. In 1987 was recorded the steady signal in the lake. 
Two dozen boats lowered to 3 days gidrolokatornuyu wide network 
that regularly scan the bottom near the Urkuharg Castle. The 
sonar showed something large, slowly moving to a depth of 180 
fathoms. Even minded skeptical engineers who have worked

on a team of hunters agreed that
These signals are received from some of the living
beings.


  Since then, the evidence is becoming
more and more. In July 1992, surveying the lake bottom revealed
unusually large object, moving at a depth of 50 feet. In 
accordance with the the testimony of the captain of Norwegian 
ship on board which was placed in equipment, the signal could 
come from the shoal of fish, as there could be errors in the 
its interpretation. Two weeks later, some British newspapers 
published color image long neck, owned by a type of dinosaur, 
which appears above the water. Although the picture taken a 
driver off the road near Fort Augustus, was vague and blurred, 
so that we can not was confidently conclude

that this animal, experts from Kodak's labs and the Royal 
Scottish voennovozdushnyh forces recognized the true picture. 


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