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Old 6th May 2014, 11:00 AM   #1
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Loch Ness Monster Sighting: Has Sonar Technology Found Nessie?

I'm not a Nessie bleever, but I thought I'd post this anyway:-

Loch Ness Monster Sighting: Has Sonar Technology Found Nessie?

Feel free to discuss.
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Old 6th May 2014, 12:03 PM   #2
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The article talks about images but doesn't publish the images. Without seeing them, there's not much to discuss. It's just some guy talking about images.

"...a distinctly-shaped outline . . . the unidentified shape . . . this image . . . it's impossible to tell what we've picked up here."

To make matters worse, he refers to the satellite image which has already been shown to be a boat wake.
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Old 6th May 2014, 01:59 PM   #3
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Wasn't this recently debunked? Not sure if I can find the links, but I recall it having something to do with the Jacobite company.
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Old 6th May 2014, 02:23 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Lensman View Post
I'm not a Nessie bleever, but I thought I'd post this anyway:-

Loch Ness Monster Sighting: Has Sonar Technology Found Nessie?

Feel free to discuss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...w_of_headlines
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Old 6th May 2014, 03:37 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Yahoo News
The unidentified shape was picked up by sonar equipment aboard a Jacobite Cruises vessel and follows reports the fabled monster had been seen in satellite images of the area.
The satellite images turned out to be a boat (might have been the Jacobite Cruises vessel itself!). Tricky to identify the sonar images without seeing them...
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The image: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...tish-lake.html
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Old 6th May 2014, 05:00 PM   #7
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I should've read this before I posted it.
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