# Loch Ness Monster's Secrets Remain Safe, It Seems **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892 "2008-02-16T17:10:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/1 "2008-02-16T17:10:01Z")
[Nessie hunter retires.](http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/02/13/veteran-loch-ness-monster-hunter-gives-up-86908-20317853/) > [@](#): > > LEGENDARY Nessie hunter Robert Rines is giving up his search for the monster after 37 years. > > The 85-year-old American will make one last trip in a bid to find the elusive beast. > > After almost four decades of fruitless expeditions, he admitted: “Unfortunately, I’m running out of age.” > > World War II veteran Robert has devoted almost half his life to scouring Loch Ness. > > He started in 1971. The following year, he watched a 25ft-long hump with the texture of elephant skin gliding through the water. > > His original trip was to help another monster hunter with sonar equipment and quickly identified large moving targets. > > He was smitten and returned the next year, which is when, he says: “I had the misfortune of seeing one of these things with my own eyes.” Of course, global warming may have killed it. > [@](#): > > Despite having hundreds of sonar contacts over the years, the trail has since gone cold and Rines believes that Nessie may be dead, a victim of global warming. Damn you, greenhouse gases! Damn you! ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/2 "2008-02-16T17:26:20Z")
I know there are some interesting beasts down in the deep parts of the ocean. I like to think that in some place where we’ve been, something has just simply managed to elude us for so long. You may be a little bit of a kook, but at least you went and asked the questions and went out there and did it. And for that, I salute you. (You too,\*\* Tuckerfan\*\*…you big kook). ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/3 "2008-02-16T17:40:41Z")
It’s a shame that apparently the bodies of those giant Nessie creatures evaporate when hitting sunlight like a vampire, instead of leaving a big rotting corpse that would prove their existance once and for all. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/4 "2008-02-16T19:46:18Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] It’s a shame that apparently the bodies of those giant Nessie creatures evaporate when hitting sunlight like a vampire, instead of leaving a big rotting corpse that would prove their existance once and for all. [/QUOTE] The Kelpies eat the corpses. Apparently. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/5 "2008-02-16T19:57:22Z")
I wonder how much money the mythical "nessie’ brings in to Scotland? is there any reason to visit loch ness otherwise? Seems like something would be found by now, if Nessie actually existed. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/6 "2008-02-16T20:11:29Z")
I wonder how much money it would cost to drain the loch. That’s the only way to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/7 "2008-02-16T20:19:06Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] I wonder how much money it would cost to drain the loch. That’s the only way to be sure. [/QUOTE] IIRC, someone looked into doing that and found that because of all the tiny streams which feed into it, it’s pretty much an impossible task. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/8 "2008-02-17T10:55:33Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] IIRC, someone looked into doing that and found that because of all the tiny streams which feed into it, it’s pretty much an impossible task. [/QUOTE] That, and the fact that it connects to the sea! There _is_ a Loch Ness monster, though. I’ve been inside it. It’s called the Foyers power station, a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant which uses Loch Ness as its lower reservoir. You can go to Foyers and you’ll never find it, but it’s there. Two turbines, fifty feet under ground. One of the tailraces shredded its lining a few years ago, and I investigated the incident. Looked up at the surface from inside a big concrete trombone with water gushing down the sides, pumps removing it as fast as it came in… happy days! From the top it looked like a big hole in the lake surface, which was pretty freaky. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/9 "2008-02-17T11:09:18Z")
[QUOTE=matt] One of the tailraces shredded its lining [/QUOTE] Shredded itself did it? Uh huh. :dubious: You dismiss out of hand the possibility that it could have been shredded by MASSIVE DINOSAUR TEETH? Eh? ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/10 "2008-02-17T13:21:53Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] It’s a shame that apparently the bodies of those giant Nessie creatures evaporate when hitting sunlight like a vampire, instead of leaving a big rotting corpse that would prove their existance once and for all. [/QUOTE] Right - I’ve always felt that their complete lack of bones or other durable remains was damned inconsiderate. ---
**Author:** ![matt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@matt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/11 "2008-02-17T16:19:58Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] Shredded itself did it? Uh huh. :dubious: You dismiss out of hand the possibility that it could have been shredded by MASSIVE DINOSAUR TEETH? Eh? [/QUOTE] Not out of hand. The intake top is screened, Nessie would have left a hole! The damage was more consistent with a temper tantrum by the Hulk. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/12 "2008-02-17T16:32:07Z")
[QUOTE=matt] Not out of hand. The intake top is screened, Nessie would have left a hole! The damage was more consistent with a temper tantrum by the Hulk. [/QUOTE] No, Nessie can weave the wire strands back together to leave no trace. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/13 "2008-02-17T16:33:15Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] I wonder how much money it would cost to drain the loch. That’s the only way to be sure. [/QUOTE] I say we drain the loch from orbit. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loch-ness-monsters-secrets-remain-safe-it-seems/437892/14 "2008-02-17T17:05:26Z")
[QUOTE=ralph124c] I wonder how much money the mythical "nessie’ brings in to Scotland? is there any reason to visit loch ness otherwise? Seems like something would be found by now, if Nessie actually existed. [/QUOTE] It gives an income to Drumnadrochit that it would not otherwise have. It’s _very_ tongue-in-cheek though, and in any case it’s a nice part of the world - if a little unexceptional by Scottish scenery standards.