Why dont they send a submarine like the Bathyscaphe Trieste to the bottom of Loch Ness ?

Question

Why don't they send a submarine like the Bathyscaphe Trieste to the bottom of Loch Ness to prove if there is a Plesiosaur in it

Answer 1

First, there is no tunnel "that connects [Loch Ness] to other fresh water regions in the world" -- whatever "other fresh water regions of the world" may mean. The geology of The Great Glen (which Loch Ness lies in) is very well understood and the idea that there are tunnels connecting it to mysterious "other parts of the world" makes about as much sense as the idea at the earth is hollow. Still, I'm sure some here will believe THAT too.

If you'd ever visited Loch Ness (which I did several times during the 30 years I lived in Scotland), you'd have some idea of the scale of the challenge facing anyone who wants to locate a creature in the Loch. It is a very large body of water and very deep.

You also need to bear in mind that the waters in the Scottish Highland lochs are far from clear. Normally, the water tends to look a bit like thin beef broth due to all the dissolved peat. Plus, there's often a lot of suspended particles in the water when there have been storms stirring up the silt on the bottom and rain washing muck down off the hillsides. Since Loch Ness is in Scotland and Scottish weather is what it is, it's rare when that _isn't_ the case.

Because visibility is not that great, sending a submersible down doesn't really achieve much since you can only see for a couple of meters. Also, if there was some large creature in the loch, it's unlikely it would sit still to have it's photo taken.

These are some of the reasons that sonar has been the main approach used by serious Nessie Hunters in recent years.

As far as caves are concerned, anyone with an interest in geology who has spent some time in Scotland would know that it does not have caves on anything approaching the scale of Carlsbad Caverns in the USA or Cheddar Gorge in England. What caves there are in the Highland region tend to be insubstantial scoops in rock faces. I am aware of claims that there are caves under the Loch, but these seem to me to be more likely the result of wishful thinking on the part of people who need to find increasingly complicated ways to explain why a huge creature supposedly living in the Loch has not so far been located in spite of the best technology available being deployed.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if some Nessie fans soon start to claim that she's been taken away in a flying saucer to live with Big Foot because the aliens knew she was getting stressed out by all the attention.

EDIT: Outamyway, in response to your suggestion that I learn to read, I refer you to the response above by Marg N. If you read this, you will see that she refers to a tunnel. Your response to my reply is rude and as ill-informed as the rest of your question. I regret the time I have spent attempting to educate you as to the realities of Loch Ness. Maybe you could get rid of some of your aggression by getting out from behind your computer and going off to the woods to hunt Bigfoot or pixies or whatever other legendary lifeforms you believe exist there.

Answer 2

That's a great idea, but it still leaves the question on how to get the submarine into the lake in the first place?  I don't think it connects with any oceans or anything, and it's not like you can just drive it across the roads.

Besides the dinosaur would probably hide somewhere so you couldn't find it.  Most animals hide when they feel threatened.

A better way to find if the creature is living in the lake would be with sonar imaging.  They can see all the way to the bottom with that and even draw a computerized image of the entire lake bottom that way.  It would be much cheaper and easier to do.

Finally, maybe they should just leave it alone, because if they did do any of those things, and found nothing, then we all wouldn't have a monster to believe in anymore. :(

Answer 3

The answer already given by several people is that although the sub would be able to dive to the pressure at the bottom of the loch it would at that point be thick with mud so no-one would be able to see anything.

Answer 4

they did send down a sub, they found out that a part of the Loch is bottomless. The did trace it to find out that it is a tunnel that connects it to other fresh water regions in the world. And guess what. Ya you guessed it, the other fresh water lack also has sightings of a creature that resembles the famed Nessie

Answer 5

Why don't they just live in Loch Ness, since they love the movie Braveheart.

Answer 6

There's already been experiments of Loch Ness in the form of Sonar testing a couple of years ago, in the hunt for Nessie.....The results were inconclusive.

The thing that I always think about is,  a huge creature living in it, would need a huge amount of food per day to survive & surely would empty the Lochs contents of a food source eventually ~ even if it lived on a Kryll like substance as whales do. How long could such a creature survive without a replenishing food supply? How long would such a creature stay in the Loch if there was no food supply? It would be more likely that it would return to the sea via the river, follow the food supply basically.

This Q was asked months ago...Why are you asking again?

I'm beginning to think a lot of the Q's asked here are a finite number of computer generated Q's & put on a rotating basis....The same Q's keep coming up again & again & again.

Answer 7

Why can't you leave Nesi alone? Don't you think he has enough trouble paying income tax?

Answer 8

1. That costs a lot of money.

2. Look at the size of loch Ness on a map.

3. Lake waters are notoriously murky and allow for very limited visibility.

Answer 9

If it was a Plesiosaur, it would breathe air so it would have to spend most of it's time near the surface. It couldn't live in submerged caves.

Besides finally busting the myth would be bad for tourism.