I was in canada doing some research and i want to know your take on ogopogo..

Question

do you think he/she exists???

has anyone saw it lately???

what the best times for possible sightings???

the best known photograph thats not been edited that i can use???

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Answer 1

I recently read a very interesting take on this question. Both Loch Ness and the lake in Canada have a similar shape - long, narrow, and deep, with steep sides (without beaches) - and apparently this leads to a certain type of wave action. The waves from boats traveling down the lake (the long way) cut across the lake and hit the shores - but since the shore line is steep (the lake gets deep very quickly, really no beaches to speak of) the waves tend to bounce back into the lake and converge into larger ripples. Now on hot summer days, these waves when viewed from a distance are distorted by the light refraction you get when looking out at any flat area when it's hot and this makes the waves seem to bump upwards making it seem like there's a hump moving across the water.

This explanation would work for a few reasons - first is that these sightings first became common when boat traffic began to really increase on the lake - I think it was around the 1930's-40's or so. There's been people living on and around both of these lakes forever. On Loch Ness there was even a castle on the shore which was used for hundreds of years and there's no history of sightings. Second is that these sightings are mostly during the summers, when you'd have both heavy boat traffic (stronger wakes from boats converging and bouncing back and forth) and more light refraction-distortion from the warm currents of air.

Here's something I copied and pasted:

--Boat wakes can also produce strange effects in the loch. As a wake spreads and divides from a boat passing the centre of the loch, it hits both sides almost simultaneously and deflects back to meet again in the middle. The movements interact to produce standing waves that are much larger than the original wake, and can have a humped appearance. By the time this occurs, the boat has passed and the unusual waves are all that can be seen.--

Here's a really good site on it: http://www.crystalinks.com/loch_ness.htm...

Here's another that discusses interesting wave action

http://www.unmuseum.org/mwave.htm

But the best reason why I think this explanation works is that I once saw a picture of this wave action distorted by warm air and it really does look like a large serpent-like animal moving across the surface of the lake.

I've always really really hoped that Loch Ness was real - but it seems that it may be based on an optical illusion.

But then there's this video:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/38939/does...

So I don't know - I really do hope it's not bs.

Answer 2

Will someone please shoot one of these critters and haul it on shore? Blurred photos of waves and "I saw it, why should I lie?" stories don't provide proof.

First, Lake Okanagan is recent. 10,000 years ago it was frozen solid under a huge ice sheet. That's the same as with Loch Ness and Lake Champlain, a couple of the other "monster" lakes.

Here's the issues that must be resolved to make the critter possible:

1. Breeding population: "Conservation biologists, as a rule of thumb, use the 50/500 rule --- a species needs 50 members to survive in the short term, 500 to survive in the long term."

http://www.skepticwiki.org/index.php/Loc...

That's a lot of critters for the lake. Remember they are reported to be at least 7 meters long. This leads to

2. Food supply:Extensive studies of Loch Ness show that the marine population is not enough to support a colony of the critters. Transfer that to Lake Okanagan and you have the same problem.

The bottom line is you can't have just one "monster" in the lake. Plus there's not enough to eat for more then a couple of "monsters"As for photes, the ones I viewed su look live waves.

Answer 3

The key word, when witnesses have seen the "Ogopogo" in Canada, is that it looks like a floating log...There are many floating logs in lakes and rivers there!

The man who doctored the photograph of Scotland's "Loch Ness" monster, before he died, confessed, "I really had them going, didn't I?"

Wishful thinking, is the downfall of true scholarship...

Answer 4

No. No. There is no best time for a sighting, although perhaps sitting by any lake with a bottle of Absinthe might provide you with some strange new sights. Any pictures taken so far are hoaxes.

Stealth and Icabod have it right. No such thing as Ogopogo.