Do you believe in the Loch Ness Monster? Why or why not?

Question

Do you believe in the Loch Ness Monster? If so, why? If not, why not? Most thorough answer gets the 10 points.

Personally, I do. There are just too much evidence supporting it. The coelacanth was thought extinct until the 1940s. Why couldn't a plesiosaur could have been frozen during the last Ice Age and unthawed, and kept reproducing. Some reptiles can reproduce asexually. And as for the whole 'it couldn't hide, we've sonared to the bottom", no we haven't. Plus, there are several caves deep in the loch where the creature could hide from humans. I'm sure the Scottish governements are sending submarines and such to look for it. Even if they found it, it would be top secret.

Answer 1

No, they would have found one by now

Answer 2

There is nothing in the loch, no large unknown animal, let alone a group, there are no underwater caves or tunnels leading out to the ocean, the rock beneath loch ness is granite.

At 52 feet above sea level any such caves or tunnels leading out to the ocean  would act like a drain in a bathtub until the lake water dropped to sea level.

The only outlet to the ocean is the river Ness, which is quite shallow and runs straight through the middle of downtown Inverness.

There is no fossil record of the plesiosaur beyond 65 million years ago and remember the loch is not vast like the ocean it is enclosed and it has been thoroughly investigated by science over the last 35 years by the Oxford and Cambridge expeditions, keeping most of the loch under constant surveilance, the LNI which kept the loch under intense observation for 10 years and saw virutally nothing, the Loch Ness Project headed by Adrian Shine was started in 1974 and in 1987 conducted the most complete and precise sonar survay ever done, the 1.6 million dollar Operation Deepscan and like the Cambridge survey, swept the loch from top to bottom and end to end.

A fleet of sonar equipped boats forming a detection net that was followed by a second fleet of boats carefully probed for any sonar contact while the first line of boats continued moving the sonar curtain forward.

Any large animal or animals fleeing thesonar curtain would just get herded along, only able to go so far before the sonar caught up with them.

Like all the previous investigations, nothing was found.

In 2003 the BBc conducted another investigation and the entire lake was scanned again using a satellite guidance system and the most modern sonar system.

Confirming what previous sonar sweeps and decades of organized scientific investigations had found - nothing.

The food supply in the Loch has also been studied and is not sufficient enough to support a large animal or group.

What some people could be seeing is a sturgeon, they have a humped back and are covered with boney scales giving them a prehistoric like look.

There are species of sturgeon all over the world and some spawn in rivers and lakes, others live in freshwater year round.

Sturgeons are big fish with some reaching lengths of 8 to 15 feet, sturgeon once lived in british rivers and in the sea around the mouth of the river Ness, although they are now considered extinct in both areas.

Other so called "lake monsters" have turned out to be sturgeon, in 1937, a sturgeon 12 feet long and weighing 600 pounds was found in British waters.

Answer 3

There has never been any physical evidence captured, all photographs up until now have been proven fake. The one photograph that was used for decades to support it was eventually recognized as a fake, the guy even admitted that he made an inflatable Nessy, he showed photo's of the nozzle where he blew it up.

Answer 4

It does exist. I don't agree that it was frozen however. I would have to go with an opinion that all of the water didn't freeze so Nessie could still swim and eat other fish that were under the ice. If Nessie could reproduce asexually, which is possible, it might not even be Nessie that people keep seeing. It could be a new plesiosaur or other creature that was the offspring of Nessie. I also agree with the fact that there are many caves in the loch, which add on to the theory of all the water not freezing. There are animals that are meant to live on land, but can be underwater without rising for about 3 hours. Maybe Nessie can last longer. The 3-hr animal only has to be above water for a short time before submerging again so i wouldn't imagine that Nessie would have to stay up too long either. So during the ice age Nessie could have hunted underwater and when finished went into a cave. If Nessie was in a cave during the sonar exploration, we couldn't have saw it. The sonar would have only been able to see what's under the water, not deep into the earth. So if you want to find it, best bet would be to find a way to put some waterproof cameras on some fish and watch for about a month. The fish see things...

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Answer 5

i do believe that there was once a loch ness monster

but i believe it died many years ago because it was the last of its species and couldnt reproduce therefore causing her species to become extinct or maybe her species lived in the sea but she got stranded and ended up in the loch somehow and she died out any theory is possible!

all animals die right and cant live forever so why do people expect that the loch ness is still alive after all these years?

her species may of had a short life span who knows??

everyone has their own opinion of the loch ness monster

well this is mine

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Answer 6

I don't think so, sorry, But I would LOVE IT if anyone ever proved it true. Plus Bigfoot!

Answer 7

Anything is possible, and when it comes to animals...other species, I think we have much to learn.

Answer 8

I do, because why couldn't there be one?? There were prehistoric creatures that looked similar..

Answer 9

I think it exist but it might have died a long time ago. its like a sea monster r something