the one time i was really blown away by a sighting of something, i was at the other end of the loch at fort augustus and something just shot through the bay as if a torpedo went through the bay. and it was going against the wave, so as it hit each wave, it would splash 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. it is an amalgam of many things put together by human perception, 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
armed with a rented 16 millimeter camera, tim dinsdale 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
something, i was at the other end of the loch at fort augustus and something shot through the bay as if a torpedo went through the bay. as it hit each wave, it would splash 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. it is an amalgam of many things put together by human perception, 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.
the question remains, what is she? tim devoted his life. believers. 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
and that pretty much changed his life. changed my life. april 1960. loch ness, scotland. armed with a rented 16 millimeter camera, tim dinsdale 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.