An underwater camera set up 55 years ago to try and photograph the Loch Ness Monster has been found by accident by a robot submarine.
The ocean-going yellow sub - called Boaty McBoatface - was being put through trials when its propeller snagged the mooring for the 1970s camera system.
It is believed it was lowered 180m (591ft) below the loch’s surface by the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, a group set up in the 1960s to uncover the existence of Nessie in the waters.
No footage of Nessie has been found on the camera, but one of the submarine’s engineers was able to develop a few images of the loch’s murky waters.
My bad, I forgot we were still on Reddit where nothing is serious and everything is a joke.
Someone needs to glue a monster mould to the top of that sub…
Bitching out on naming the ship Boaty McBoatface is the real reason Brexit happened.
You damn fools. You better have tree fiddy ready for the rest of your lives.
Shouldn’t that be unloched?
Oh there will be grist for the mill, whether they “found” anything or not.
Shouldn’t it be unwatered? :^)
No footage of Nessie will ever be found or captured, because in 1991 the dude who started the damn rumor with that one famous photo admitted that it was a hoax. Why people still continue to search for the monster baffles me.
To be fair, this camera was put in the water in the 1970s…
Same reason people think the earth is flat, the moon landing was a hoax, and that vaccines cause autism?
A lack of critical thinking skills, and general stupidity.
A lack of critical thinking skills, and general stupidity.
And trolling. Don’t forget trolling.
1991? I took a fake photo of Nessie in 1984, and I’m certain I wasn’t the first.
The picture he took was from the 60’s; he just confessed it was bullshit in 91.
No footage of Nessie will ever be found … because in 1991 the dude … admitted that it was a hoax.
Yeah, but Nessie has been folklore for longer than such an animal could possibly have lived. I have great great great great grandparents from the area, and it was older than them. People have been faking photographs since the photograph was invented. Before that people painted pictures or did charcoal sketches.
My point was that the guy didn’t start anything; he just continued the tradition.
here’s the images
True hero.
I was hoping for something more like this:
Personally I’m betting on Nessie having camouflage skills like an octopus, and instead of squirting ink they can create the equivalent of an underwater dust cloud. That would absolutely explain these photos.
And it knew to react to an unmoving camera how? It just perfectly puts out its camouflage cloud every time it passes a camera? You realize that makes zero sense, right?
Um, you’re taking my comment way too seriously. I replied to a cartoon picture. I literally just made up a silly explanation that would fit the photos. Please take a deep breath and go touch some grass.
Oh shut the fuck up. Telling someone to touch grass after spouting your delusion? People like you need to be told to shut up more. We shouldn’t entertain your nonsense. Trying to call it a joke after the fact is the only laughable part.
Wow. You have issues mate.
Nah, I’m just done with handling ignorance with kid gloves. It’s how we got to the state of the US today.
You clearly put forth your unsubstantiated theory that Nessie has active camouflage and it totally explains the murky photos. You took the LACK of evidence and used that as proof of something even more extreme and requiring of even more proof. When asked a very simple question like “well then how would it work with a stationary camera?” suddenly it’s “well I was just playing make believe, you need to touch grass!”
Nah, fuck your goal post moving ass.
“Aliens”
Lol its a hoax anyway…
Yeah, but when it’s clearly a hoax and you have someone going “yeah, but still, what if it’s really X?” it makes it really clear how badly our education and mental health systems failed.
i thought you were playing along with the joke but you really were going “you’re dumb actually and stupid” like you believed it
Well so long as you’re not ultra into it its fun and w/e. To me its same energy as planning for winning lotto. Yeah it ain’t happen but it will be cool. Its purely distraction in something possibly wonderful. Sometimes I think if the people that go too far just really dont want to come back.
No, it’s delusional. Writing fictional stories is fine. Trying to warp reality and evidence to fit your fantasy is delusion. “This would be cool…” is not the same as being told why you’re scientifically wrong and then going “but what if it were true anyways because I want to believe?”
It’s the same shit with Bigfoot. As more and more “evidence” is debunked and the case becomes more obviously just a mistaken identification at best you get these whack jobs talking about how Bigfoot is a dimension jumping shape shifter. Not because they have any actual evidence, but because “this is the only way to explain why we got zero pictures despite decades of trying”.
Imagination is fine. Delusion is not.
Isn’t it best practice to develop film as soon as possible after taking a picture. Surely the undeveloped picture would have degraded after 55 years?
Technically yes, but in favourable condition the film can persist for pretty long time. People have developed films that had been sitting in a camera/cartridge for literally a century and gotten decent results.
Omg, a camera with a flash cube - so it would have been able to take 4 flash pictures.
I had that exact same camera when I was a kid. My favourite part was putting in new flash cubes. Dude when the Kodak Disc came out we were wetting our pants, that thing had INFINITE FLASH
It’s the camera my mom used, too. It was super popular, it seems like every family had one.
Taking pictures was such a different experience in those days, knowing you only had as many pictures as was on the roll (like 20 I think it’s what we bought), and you couldn’t see how they came out until you had them developed.
i read that at first as “camera to to set up the loch ness monster” and i thought they were trying to frame the loch ness monster of a crime she didn’t commit
They were trying to catch her in a loving embrace with her cousin, the Ogopogo.
That was always a very long distance relationship.
I’ve got pictures of both of them though :D
So show us the pictures then! Why are you hiding them?! Outrage!
Boaty McBoatface from 2016 … it feels like 10 lifetimes ago.
