is monster hunting. he read an article in 1959 in a small magazine and was fascinated by the subject. it covered things like a surgeon s photograph and other people s eyewitness testimony. the 1930s and 40s saw a surge in apparent loch ness monster sightings. including this one by malcolm irvine. dinsdale went to find it. he got a sequence of film. on his fourth day at the lake, tim captures what thousands before and since have tried and failed to film. he described it as for all well being like the back of an african buffalo. same color tone. quite a large object. it was seven feet wide, seven feet out of the water with a sort of reddish brown hide. and as he watched this thing, it suddenly took off. then he remembered why he was
and something just shot across this bay as if a torpedo went through the bay. it was going against the waves. so as it hit each wave, the wave would flash up white water. and there s no simple explanation in loch ness for what that could have been. dinsdale s film also inspires marine biologist adrian shine to identify once and for all what lies beneath the surface of lake ness. the loch ness monster is an amalgam of many things perhaps melded together by the human consciousness by human perception, perhaps by human aspiration. we d all love there to be something there. adrian s loch ness project has organized dozens of expeditions from operation deep scan, a 24-boat sonar exploration in 1987, to submarine searches, and even an exorcism. be gone now, hideous demon.
the question remains. what is she? tim dinsdale devoted his life to answering this question. he first went up in april of 1960. every year thereafter, he went to loch ness. from the end of 1960s he d given up his work, given up his job, and he was doing this full time. but he never captures nessie as clearly as he did in 1960. there have been other photos and films, but the dinsdale footage remains iconic. i often say that witnesses seldom lie. cameras very often do. sometimes without their owner s knowledge. the dinsdale film of 1960, it s quite a poor quality film which makes identification difficult. my father s film to this day stands as being unexplained. but i think i m convinced that given all the evidence, all the eyewitness testimony, the photography, my father s film and the other pieces of film that have been taken, there s
millimeter bolex camera, british aeronautical engineer tim dinsdale is monster hunting. he read an article in 1959 in a small magazine and he became fascinated by the subject. the article covered thipngs lik the surgeon s photograph and dozens of other people s eyewitness testimony. the 1930s and 40s saw a surge in apparent loch ness monster sightings. including this one filmed by malcolm irvine. dinsdale wanted in on the objection. he went in there. he wanted unequivocal moving film of the object. on his fourth day at the lake, tim captures what thousands before and since have tried and failed to film. he described it as for all well being like the back of an african buffalo. same color tone. quite an enormous, quite a large object. as i say, several feet wide. several feet out of the water. with sort of a reddish brown
every year thereafter he went to loch ness. from the end of 1960s he d given up his work and job and was doing this full-time. but he never captures nessie as clearly as he did in 1960. there have been other photos and films, but the dinsdale footage remains iconic. i often say witnesses seldom lie. cameras very often do. sometimes without their owner s knowledge. the dinsdale film of 1960, it s quite a poor quality film which makes identification difficult. my father s film to this day stands as being unexplained. but i m convinced that given all the evidence, all the eyewitness testimony, the photography, my father s film and other film taken, there s something large living in loch ness.