- The underwater drone looking for “Nessie” finds its sunken ‘film double’
- The 30-foot replica used in the 1970 film “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” sank nearly 50 years ago
- The underwater drone continues mapping the Loch Ness and investigate what lies in its depths
The underwater drone looking for the fabled Loch Ness monster, popularly known as “Nessie” and rumored to inhabit Loch Ness, a large, deep, freshwater lake in the Scottish Highlands, found something that looked exactly like “Nessie” at the bottom of the lake.
Unfortunately, it’s not the Loch Ness Monster it was looking for.
According to an article published by Reuters, the underwater drone found the 9-meter (30-foot) replica used in the 1970 film “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes”, which sank nearly 50 years ago after its buoyant humps were removed.
BBC News quoted Loch Ness expert Adrian Shine as saying: “We have found a monster, but not the one many people might have expected.”
He said they can confidently say that it was the sunken model used in the 1970 film because of where it was found, the measurements, the shape; noting that it has a neck and no humps.
According to Shine, the model was built with a neck and two humps and taken alongside a pier for the filming of portions of the film in 1969. However, The director did not want the humps and had them removed; despite warnings that removing those would affect its buoyancy.
“And the inevitable happened. The model sank,” he added.
The Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime which is in charge of the project called Operation Groundtruth isn’t finished yet as they steer the drone further to continue mapping the lake and investigate what lies in its depths.
The drone is reportedly capable of mapping vast areas down to 457 meters and is often used to locate downed aircraft.
Kongsberg Maritime engineer Craig Wallace revealed that the underwater drone allows sonars to scan just a few meters from the lake floor; giving resolution several orders of magnitude greater than anything before.
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