After decades of hypothesis and searching , a team of research worker have finally found Scotland ’s legendaryLoch Ness monster , theBBC reports . Well , kind of .
An underwater robot recently discovered a 30 - foot model of thelegendary lake beastthat was once used in the 1970 Billy Wilder movieThe Private Life of Sherlock Holmes . The prop sank during take in 1969 , allegedly because its chirpy humps were removed at the behest of the music director .
For nearly 50 geezerhood , the fake ogre sat at the bottom of Loch Ness . It was finally recovered thanks to Norwegian surveillance company Kongsberg Maritime , which teamed up with VisitScotland and Nessie - focused enquiry groupThe Loch Ness Projectto go over the lake ’s bottom .
The expedition , dub " Operation Groundtruth , " used an underwater robot calledMuninto map out the lake ’s deepness using sonar and tv camera equipment . Munin terminate up capturing images that play off the measurements and shape of the Nessie poser near the space it originally sank .
" We have obtain a monster , but not the one many people might have expected , ” Adrian Shine of the Loch Ness Project told the BBC .
The golem made some other interesting discovery . It detected a 27 - foot - long wreck , and it also disproved a late claim that the lake ’s bottom had a " Nessie deep " large enough to hide a monolithic monster .
Despite these new findings , Loch Ness ’s depths will always have an temptingness , Malcolm Roughead , chief executive of VisitScotland , sound out in a statement . “ No matter how commonwealth - of - the - fine art the equipment is , and no matter what it may reveal , there will always be a gumption of mystery and the unknown around what really lie in beneath Loch Ness . "
That ’s expert news show for Scotland ’s bottom furrow : agree toThe New York Times , VisitScotland reports that Nessie is worth roughly $ 85 million to the state ’s economic system .
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streamer image courtesy ofVisit Scotland .
