DNA hunt for Loch Ness

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This latest article regarding DNA in Loch Ness isn't really the whole story.

The true research of Professor Neil Gemmell will improve past investigations on what has existed and what is currently
living in the largest body of water in the UK. Only Loch Morar is deeper than Ness and sure enough, there's a monster
legend attached to that 1,017 feet-deep lake.

It's coming up on the right time of the year for Journalists to drag out the Silly Season' and offer vague reports
that have little to do with actual living unidentified creatures and this perception keeps such intriguing phenomena
in realms of the woo and the ridiculous.

This BBC article shows again, the lack of serious Journalistic integrity that's disgarded for the sake of a silly headline.
'...The team will collect tiny fragments of skin and scales for two weeks in June...'
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Scales and skin from what...?! The already identified creatures in Loch Ness, of course. But the research will further
our understanding of what makes up the complex environment of the loch and assist to explain what is causing so many
accounts of a large multi-humped animal to be observed.

But what the esteemed BBC and all the other so-called established media didn't tell you -and this harks to my comment
of the 'silly season', is this from 2017.

03/04/2017
Kiwi dives into new hunt for Loch Ness monster.
'The 500-year-old mystery of the Loch Ness Monster could be solved by a Kiwi living in New Zealand's Edinburgh of the South.
Otago University Professor Neil Gemmell plans to use DNA to try and solve the myth once and for all.

"I like the idea that there might be something there that we don't know. And I'd be keen to see if we can explore it further to put
this to bed once and for all," he said. Sightings of the mythical creature named "Nessie" first began in the 1930s, with many
believing they've seen the small town's most famous resident.

Now Prof Gemmell has a simple plan - to test a few litres of the Loch's water searching for any "unusual" traces of DNA.
"What we'll be looking for is any DNA samples that look unusual to loch ness or unique to Loch Ness versus other Lochs,"
he said. Thousands flock to the small Scottish township each year hunting for the enormous creature.

And the legend that captivates so many people is likely to live on forever.
"I've got to say, I suspect if I find no evidence of the monster that won't stop people seeing it and it won't stop people believing
in it," Prof Gemmell said. He says DNA belonging to a large cat fish, up to four metres in length, could unlock the mystery.
"That might explain more of the common sightings in Loch Ness and that may explain many of the more common sightings that
have been reported."...'

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Never trust the bastards, it's really about dealing with the northern hemisphere current holiday/vacation periods in the
media world and the only good thing about it is it's punctuality.
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Loch Ness is fascinating -even without the fabled monster. It's a massive amount of water that can hold it's own
eco-system. The lake cannot freeze due to the volume of water being able to maintain it's many different temperatures
and it's this strata of climate that can create the many strange effects affiliated with the legend.

Reactions between mid-level depth temperatures and the surface can be so violent that radar from vessels in the loch
have actually registered a physical-style presence.

The wave actions also have a bearing on confusing a viewer to the loch. A boat travelling down the loch can be well away
from a location when the waves caused by the boat's wake have parted, hit the respective shores and then returned to
their original place. This meeting of the wake creates -what seems, a line of raised water that to an observer on the shore
might think is a moving object following the same passage of the long-gone boat.



The creatures that live in and around the 23 mile-long expanse of Loch Ness can be possible suspects of what comprises
of the famous 'Nessie'. Eels pike, and other large fish can make effects on the surface when it's calm and otters and the
occasional inquisitive seal can also fool a novice researcher. There's even reports of a sturgeon being in the loch.

It's also been reported that deer sometimes attempt to cross the peaty waters and from a distance, could be perceived as
a long-necked beast from the depths of the Great Glen Fault. Debris from the surrounding wooded areas that can be washed
down in the many tributaries could give rise to reports of a curious underwater animal surveying it's surroundings.

That's the excepted rational out of the way!
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During Robert Rines' 1972  Academy of Applied Science expedition, sonar beams were placed across the loch to possibly
pick up passage the purported creature. Listening equipment were also set-up and at night, strange clickings were heard.
When the kit was approached by Rines' crew -to check the bouys hadn't become entangled and causing the rhythmic sounds,
the clicking would recede and then return when the boat got back to shore.
Eels do sometimes make a 'quarking'-style squeak, but the recorded sounds from Loch Ness were never identified.

The sonar beams picked up large moving objects at the same time shoals of fish were taking evasive action and only twenty
feet away from a situated strobe camera and at a depth of forty-five feet, the famous 'flipper' photograph was captured.
The British Natural History Museum, while acknowledging that the photograph were genuine found that 'the sequence appears
to show the passage of a large object'.

The sonar chart which recorded the passage of the objects was subsequently analysed by several independent experts,
whose composite verdict found that there are large animals in Loch Ness which are at least 20 to 30ft long with 'several
segments, body sections or projections such as humps'.

These findings -along with other more up-to-date scientific investigations, will expand our knowledge of what is really down there.