Source : Perth Now news
A Loch Ness Monster expert has written a “manual” on how to spot the fabled beast.
Adrian Shine – who founded the Loch Ness Project and led the Operation Deepscan Nessie hunt in 1987 – has put pen to paper to write new tome A Naturalist’s View of the Loch Ness Enigma in which he discusses why the existence of the monster has yet to be proven and he also advises Nessie hunters on how to go about catching a glimpse.
He told The Inverness Courier: “I say the Loch Ness monster does exist. I’ve written a manual on how it can be seen.”
Adrian – who moved close to the Scottish loch back in 1973 – is convinced a huge monster cannot exist in Loch Ness because the waters do not contain enough nutrients to sustain a large beast, but he’s convinced there is something out there.
He told the publication: “I’ve been doing this for quite a long time and I have been under pressure to produce, if you like, my final thoughts.
“That’s what I’ve done …
“Sympathetic scepticism is not a matter of being patronising, it is about being interested in a subject which interests a lot of people.
“How is it that over a thousand honest and sober people are reporting things they interpret as large animals, large unusual ones, in Loch Ness when nobody can find one?
“That’s the paradox. The heart of the subject is what people see or, rather, what they perceive to see. That is what I have explained in this book.”
It comes after Adrian revealed he believes most Nessie sightings have a very simple explanation – insisting most people who think they see a huge creature in the water are actually looking at wakes from large boats which have passed by.
Adrian also thinks the construction of the Caledonian Canal in early nineteenth century to connect the country’s waterways is responsible for creating the wakes that led to the Nessie myth.
Speaking to Robson Green in his World’s Most Amazing Walks series, Adrian explained: “The persistence of boat wakes is one of the things that has created the multi-humped stereotype of the Loch Ness Monster and there the Caledonian Canal is the crucial factor because of course it runs through all the lochs of the great glen.
“But it is that canal which brought large vessels making big wakes and therefore big monsters.”
Host Robson went on to admit his conversation with Adrian didn’t leave him with any clear answers on whether Nessie does actually exist.
He said: “I remember the Deepscan Expedition like it was yesterday and what Adrian has just explained to me is that they can’t really prove that a creature exists under these waters but they can’t disprove it either.”
