Nessie Finally Proven?! Fresh Loch Ness Sonar Image Astonishes Experts

A development in the age old tale of the Loch Ness Monster has shocked experts and workers on the fabled waters of Loch Ness.
Kevin O'Sullivan speaks to Shaun Sloggie, the skipper on the 'Spirit of Loch Ness' pleasure boat, who spotted a large object on the vessel’s underwater sonar sensors. This adds to a pile of corroborating evidence that there really is something down there.
Kevin also speaks to Loch Ness tourism pioneer Willie Cameron, who calls the images 'fascinating'.
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[@Royboy50]

If there isn’t a monster in Loch Ness there is definitely one in the house of parliament

[@johnreed8336]

I totally agree .

[@bibby65]

Not just one,but a whole Jurassic period of monsters.

[@roschamac]

😂😂😂😂 excellent comment 🎉

[@victoriajones8747]

Well said 😂

[@markmorrid8144]

Wefasaurus .

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

Wouldn't it be brilliant if there was something? Why not enjoy the possibility?

[@cathygrover4947]

I have always believed that Nessie is in there, I hope they find him/her before I die, I am 79. x

[@janeburke147]

Me too 😊

[@dragonh3art1]

I think it's better to be just a mystery,if it is ever proven people will hunt it,try catching it,it's safer just being a mystery,

[@AnnHollowell-l1v]

And me

[@RyanKing-h1k]

Hope so too Cathy many more years for you I’m hoping pet ❤

[@AndrewJarvis-hn7cc]

In 1978, I met a Scottish zoologist who kept a boat on Loch Ness. One night , on his boat's sonar, he saw THREE very large 'things' hovering at a depth of about 100 metres , which all had the unique sonar signature of Nessie- that is, a sort of lemon -shaped body with 2 pairs of fins sticking out of the side. The zoologist was ostracized by the fellow academics at his university as a result. Also, don't forget the famous video taken by Tim Dinsdale in the early 1960's. I think it all fits with a plesiosaur, BUT I am baffled by how it breathes without being seen more often.

[@Joe-yy1lv]

So on sonar he could see a fins, hmmmm 🤔 🐂 💩 😂

[@AndrewJarvis-hn7cc]

No, you see either a protruberance, or a separate small echo adjacent to the main body. I'm no expert either, but I understand this is virtually unique to 'Nessie'.And ( although no sonar evidence) Loch Morar has a strong 'monster' tradition. As did Loch Lomond some centuries ago, but no longer.

[@Joe-yy1lv]

@@AndrewJarvis-hn7cc I wish it was true mate I just know it ain’t, not a chance it could remain unseen and obviously would need to be more than one. I’d never seen that vid you mentioned so I looked it up apparently it was proven to be a boat both that is was much proof anyway imo

[@DJ-uk5mm]

Might be a “wells” catfish mor a sturgeon but how silly to still be calling it a “ monster”

[@ptaylor5014]

I believe there are underground caves with air inside, this could be were these magnificent creatures go most of the time, hence why surface sightings are so rare.

[@Lisafer15]

Let's hope it's never found or it'll be poked at kept in a tank and bits cut out of it.. If indeed it's physical.

[@PaulSullivan-u4u]

Even if it did exist just bloody leave it alone we know you scientists like taking things apart

[@99fruitbat94]

Scottish person here . Loch Ness was a churning hell of glacier and rock ten thousand years ago . Nothing could have survived . I would like to believe but nah . ❤

[@phYT01]

As someone who studied Geology for my degree I was just about to make the same point. Anything in there arrived post-glacial. What is now the loch would have been full of ice scouring the sides with a massive thickness of ice above bearing down on it.

[@Adrian-jk4kx]

Arctic Char did!

[@kimballentyne3482]

Thanks for sharing. Hope Nessie bites all the rotten apples.

[@petestobbs5844]

Prior to 1938, if you had asked a zoologist to name some of the oldest fish known to science, you’d probably hear about an oddly named lobe-fish, known as the coelacanth. The name itself sounds ancient. Coelacanths first evolved into existence during the early Devonian period, a little over 400 million years ago. What this zoologist would not have told you is that this ancient fish could still be found in the ocean today. In fact, they probably would have chuckled at the idea. Scholars, prior to the coelacanth’s rediscovery in 1938, presumed that the coelacanth had gone extinct during the late Cretaceous period, 65-70 million years ago. In 2010 four friends, carrying 32kg (71lb) worth of camera equipment, sunk beneath the waves of Sodwana Bay, off the east coast of South Africa. It was then that photographer, Laurent Ballesta stared directly into the eyes of a creature once thought to have died out with the dinosaurs - making him the first diver to photograph a living coelacanth.

[@pheart2381]

Yes,and there is the almost mythical oar fish of Japanese legend. I watched a stunning documentary on oar fish recently here on youtube.

[@K25-l6x]

I saw a fossilized coelacanth in a museum in Liverpool many years ago. It looked like the living ones of today. There are many surprises in the oceans and big, deep lakes of the World.

[@oldgamer1299]

Tourism must be down I guess

[@kazb64]

I think the words are " I'm old Gregg" lol

[@doOf3r]

Guy who runs a boat doing Loch Ness 'Nessie' Tourist Tours 'sees' the thing he's doing tours for... Quelle surprise!

[@johnreed8336]

😮😅😅😅

[@alisonmansfield9052]

I believe in Nessie🙂

[@cookiemonster2299]

Even if it's not a plesiosaur that footage was blurry enough to qualify as a bigfoot sighting so win win. 👍😁👍❤️

[@fatbelly27]

Odd things have been seen in the Loch ever since they built a road going down the side of the loch in the 1930s

[@LadyThunderbird63]

Around the time of the road being built in 30s a circus owned by a Mr Mills had been in Inverness and there was a sighting of nessie so Mr Mills being a showman whipped the locals up into a frenzy and offered 20.000 for anyone who caught nessie for his circus , confident that no one would claim the money as he knew what had been sighted was his own indian elephant bathing.

[@mnp3713]

Any chance it's a single very old sturgeon those get huge and very old.

[@oldshiny3012]

didn't realize Nicola was that old Dam

[@SatumainenOlento]

​@@oldshiny3012 And a good swimmer 😅

[@pheart2381]

Sightings go back to medieval times. I don't believe sturgeon live that long.

[@jonnybloggs6790]

Get the guys to take the sonar to number 10 as much bigger monsters go there ……

[@kingslayer2999]

Loch Ness Monster? There must be more than one like a surviving Dinosaur species 🤔

[@Sonnie125]

Crocodile is living proof of a living dinosaur 🐊

[@Vespa123]

and how would a species survive without at least thousands of them? genetic diversity is a thing

[@_s_9920]

@@Vespa123 these idiots believe a single ones has survived millions of years alive. This one is on par with believing the moon is made of cheese.

[@ptaylor5014]

There is more than one, there are a few of them in that lake

[@Vespa123]

@@ptaylor5014 evidence please

[@phildiamond8549]

Wouldn’t there need to be a family of them?

[@Vespa123]

more than that, try thousands 😂😂😂

[@ptaylor5014]

There is.

[@Vespa123]

@@ptaylor5014 where is the evidence? there is none and never has been 🤷‍♂️

[@kevinstrachan4442]

My father was a bus driver doing the fort William to Inverness run , the loch was flat calm and was a huge wake ,like a very large vessel had just went up the loch but no sign of any boat in the loch , he thought maybe a earthquake!! Who knows!

[@horserous]

In 1974, by a lake at dawn, somewhere in Scotland, i looked and looked over the mists. I then stooped down to the edge and imbibed the hallowed waters. The experience left me empowered to this day.

[@johnreed8336]

What have you been smoking ?

[@horserous]

@johnreed8336 Nothing sinister; that Chinese takeaway, maybe? Was it Inverness nearby? Sorry, I'm not good at highland geography, as my father picked up. The Chinese serve the best chips in Scotland, to note. Oh yes, at a campsite by the shore.

[@apollomemories7399]

There's only one "lake" in Scotland, Lake of Menteith and it's nowhere near Inverness.

[@kevinculley9327]

Errrrrrrrr......Errrrrrrrrr.....Errrrrrrrr.....Errrrrrrrrrr.....bigger mystery than Nessie is why Kevin O'Sullivan cannot get more than three words out without another drawn out ERRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!

[@AnnHollowell-l1v]

Yes, it gets on my nerves.

[@blackdotkiller1]

Loch Ness monster, obviously Scotland is trying to get more money 💰 🤦‍♂️🤣🤣🤣

[@Geoff-n1d]

Always the same low resolution crap…… if prehistoric creatures lived in there we would all know about it by now…… keep the fantasy going for the sake of the local lochness economy

[@saphire9934]

Anything is possible remember that people just because you haven't witnessed anything yourself don't mean it doesn't exist 🤔🤔🤔

[@johncollins5178]

6 metres = 30 feet, Kevin? When I went to school, a metre was about 39 inches! - I.E. 6 metres is about 19.5 feet! Anyone would think you're trying to big up Nessie!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@johnreed8336]

Probably is !

[@philboyce1582]

Obviously not getting enough tourists up in the Loch Ness region

[@kappaslapper14]

This was sponsored by the local pub next to the Lock .

[@johnreed8336]

A little cynical ?

[@briantitchener4829]

Lock? You are not Scottish that's for sure.

[@elaine8417]

LOCH!!!!!

[@kappaslapper14]

A very shy Dinosaur .

[@marycamilleri447]

In a way i agree with others, if there is something in the Loch just leave it alone.

[@simoncurl4504]

I've got a Nessie! Soft toy,.. found him in a charity shop... 🤣

[@johnreed8336]

That was a good find 😊

[@andyetheridge]

You sure it’s Nessie?😂

[@simoncurl4504]

​@@andyetheridgeAye, it says so on his chest.... the real thing, made in China.

[@GD2X]

Theres a 66 million year old Dinosaur living in that loch…

[@GeoffDay-t4g]

So Scott is in the local tourism industry. Sales are likely to sky rocket next week. Great marketing, Scott

[@offal]

pish get it shown, you go on tv and they don`t even show the sonar? potentially the biggest discovery in history and they don`t even show it, pish, the only image shown is from a video camera not sonar.

[@brianmaynard9282]

No Thats Starmers Aunty, After his Uncle went to sell sausages in the Falklands she went to pieces and jumped into the loch, His daddy stayed home and played with his favorite little Tool.

[@magicmaster-167]

😂😂😂😂

[@adambinnie1332]

Shaun Sloggie is the man 😂

[@DavidBritton-nl1wv]

When I was a child my old man, an ex marine commando in the war and hard as nails, used to take me and my older brothers and sisters up from the south coast of England to go camping around Loch Ness for a couple of weeks. The last time I must have been about twelve or thirteen, I'm 66 now. There was a hotel the other side of the Loch where we camped that time, and the old man would motor across the Loch in his ten foot inflatable with a 3hp outboard most evenings for a drink there. Sometimes he wouldn't roll out of there until well gone midnight, especially if he took his banjo and got a sing song going. Then he would motor back across the loch at well gone midnight, often a bit pissed. My old man wasn't frightened of the Loch Ness monster.

[@LeeKirkman88]

It was probably a USO more probable than a Dinosaur.

[@oldshiny3012]

my guess its Nicola Sturgeon practicing her free diving skills now that she has got so much free time she needed a hobby

[@davidtoppin1998]

Maybe the British secret submarine project?

[@janeburke147]

I love this,I grew up talking about the Loch Ness monster,the movies were so romantic.If I won the lottery,I would love to live there 👍🏻

[@STOPTHEBOATSSTOPTHEMADNESS]

Naaa my dad was based in that area from when I was aged 6-30 before I moved to England, from my school yrs up I’ve been going fishing and golfing in the area just 10mind from the lock I lived and each year they come out with a new Nessie video or story to bring in more tourism, it’s normally just before summer but Xmas times aswel, don’t belive it hahaha 🤣

[@leekirkland9355]

You lived there but you still spell loch like a Saxon .

[@pjbradley1749]

The skipper of the Loch Ness cruise ship has absolutely nothing to gain by bullshitting. This is real

[@dominicjohn8954]

Definitely Nessie. If you look carefully at around 0:52 you can see it smiling and waving.

[@paulhannis9160]

It's old Gregg. Mighty bosh fans will know what I'm on about.

[@leonhughes9014]

do you love me?

[@kazb64]

I think the words are "I'm old Gregg" lol

[@ashbee6766]

Fancy a Bailey's now! 😂

[@jenniferjenkins1341]

Many years ago my husband and I stayed in a cottage by Loch Ness at Drumnadrochit It was next to the Clansman Hotel. We had been to Urquart Castle that day and we arrived back at the cottage in the afternoon. My husband turned the car round to face the loch at the end of the drive, in front of the house. Suddenly he put in binoculars to his eyes and then said to me 'look' and passed the binoculars to me and guided my hands. I saw two hump shapes going through the water, quite fast and then they just went under the surface. My husband said he saw the humps but he saw what look like a long neck as well. Apparently a guest at the Clansman hotel also reported seeing it.

[@D...........33]

Question,Has the SNP got there fingers in this?😂😂😂😂😂

[@akula9713]

You’d need two things for a surviving creature, a large enough number of them to sustain and a plentiful food supply.

[@johnreed8336]

Not much food in Lich Ness it's really quite sterile .

[@gordonscott8355]

If nessie is found...starmer will probably try and give it away.

[@marvelstarwarsgeek1511]

Is it April 1st already ?

[@qetoun]

Reeves will put a tax on it.

[@joeblogs5163]

Have they found Starmer 😂😂😂😂

[@Agaliki6]

Most people believe in God,but never seen him 😂

[@oldshiny3012]

is that called wishful thinking or just plain delusion ?

[@AnnHollowell-l1v]

​@@oldshiny3012It's called faith.

[@Nemetona225]

But wouldn't the water in the Loch be far to cold for a creature such as a Plesiosaur....

[@romantiachristiana5147]

Captain Nemo and the Nautilus? We need Prof. Aronnax on the job. At least Nessie isn't ramming boats... :D

[@debbieeastham5372]

This young man is right a lot of people.have found already ,ive always beleived 😊

[@user-wn3uz9qn4t]

I hope they never find Nessie.

[@andyetheridge]

Everyone has a phone, these phones have great cameras and yet no one thought of taking a screen shot of the image?

[@dickietrickle]

Did Kevin say, "How long is this willie?"

[@Richnineteenseventyone]

No idea of the life span of this dinosaur but if there was and or is a nessie then this is likely a decendent off which means theres a family. ..... More than one. Despite the negative comments.... Anything is possible.

[@scoobydooz6575]

visitor and souvonier sales must be low, next will be the grainy photo's to get visitor numbers up

[@oldshiny3012]

100%

[@theflyinghamster8442]

Tourism was done this year , this should boost it !!! 😁😁😁😁

[@bigedwards2298]

I smell an oak island type TV show coming

[@johnbutterworth-t9x]

Load of tripe. For a species not to go extinct, there needs to be at least 200 breeding pairs.That means Sona reading would show up nearly every time. These guys are just 15 minutes of fame merchants.

[@Cornz38]

Oh stop it, get a grip ffs....

[@scottgarwood8389]

Great story hope it’s true

[@irene3196]

Nessies (plural) shelter in a cavernous airspace with it's entrance at the bottom of the loch.

[@dragonsguardianofcrystalhearts]

Imagine nessie and bigfoot get together to mess with the humans. It could happen!

[@Venom-n7d]

Breaking....... Trex spotted in the lake District by drone pilot

[@Delta-fs8jm]

I have been fooling people for decades..she has not been in Loch ness for decades. I actually captured the creature in 1965 and have kept it in an enormous tank in my back garden. She loves a good feed of mackerel and salmon and is very expensive to feed but I don't mind that...she is adorable.

[@oldshiny3012]

lmao more then a Wee dram was consumed lol

[@pituophisart6916]

Loch Ness eel

[@Mike75575]

So 2 guys come on here and tell us about the one that got away. 😅ps Wheres the sonar images?😂

[@carloseddy1005]

So no pics?

[@IanSizer-co7vb]

A much needed boost for Scotlands economy 😅

[@Realsuperdoctor3]

It's the Skarasen it's real I tell you I am sure the Zygon leader would want to pop up for a wave!

[@garymcatear822]

Why didn't they show us the sonar image?

[@GeekanArtemis]

Great plug for the chaps business, is it a dying trade I wonder?

[@davidthorpe516]

Its Scotlands largest haggis.

[@pheart2381]

No,no. Haggis are land dwellers.

[@BobChancer]

Its just cranky in the wild 😂

[@Exiledk]

There is not enough food in that loch to support such an animal. The whole idea is ridiculous.

[@davidtoppin1998]

It iz possible that the loch has pathways out to sea or further underground water world we know nothing about.

[@poppy1779]

That is a definite possibility.

[@kevinbillington9773]

There are several species of trout and Atlantic salmon, also loads of large eels. So your supposition is incorrect.

[@jimwest7107]

An Upturned boat especially on the bottom will look like that

[@johntims2416]

Its that submarine that sunk starmers uncle

[@SEPK09]

Nessie for PM

[@mlc323]

So is there, either a breeding colony of monsters or a single monster that's millions of years old???? A colony would be needed to prevent in-breeding and a monster millions of years old REALLY would be a scientific marvel that's more impressive than there being a monster in the first place. It's a sensible question. 😂

[@pm1104]

So let’s see the proof ! 😮

[@ronaldworth4146]

Also it could be a sturgeon.!😮

[@Buster_Piles]

10 metres croisant shape? Pah! I've done bigger craps.

[@johnreed8336]

😅😅😅😅

[@Lonbet]

That's sturgeon swimming

[@JOzzie-u8z]

Or it could be a log because if there was something this big people would see it personally I think someone made it up to get more tourists and it worked

[@abstract33]

Has Sturgeons Camper gone missing?

[@akula9713]

Perhaps they are migrating to the loch, and the rest of the year are elsewhere or hibernating?

[@jeffharper9703]

Will the SNP ban Nessie ?😂

[@shaunusmaximus6399]

I suppose you have to come up with something to make people want to visit Scotland

[@apollomemories7399]

If it is real, the Chinese tourists will have it on a barbeque in half an hour.

[@TheRattyBiker]

Just hold up 3.50 and it'll soon pop out and show it's face.

[@atlasnetwork7855]

It's just ian blackford gone for a swim.

[@apiscator444]

WOT no sonar images?

[@Deddmantalking]

Not saying they have taken any but it is magic mushroom season😂

[@David-ce1nh]

The local tourist industry up there must be struggling 😂😂 Absolute hogwash.

[@yinglyca1]

Where is the sonar image?

[@pheart2381]

Why do we need proof that it exists?

[@shelly6482]

Image.