Scotland's Sea Monster | Drain the Oceans: Secrets of Loch Ness | National Geographic UK

Drain the Oceans explores one of the world's great mysteries - the identity of the Loch Ness Monster. Scotland's dramatic landscape is made up of some of the oldest rock layers in the world, and embedded in them are thousands of extraordinary dinosaur fossils. But the question today is: Do any sea monsters still exist in the Scottish islands?
Combining military-grade scanning technology and a sonar curtain drawn across its entire surface, the plug is pulled on Scotland's famous loch. As the waters drain away, much more than a monster is revealed.
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[@adammclaughlin845]

I've been to Loch Ness and it's no wonder people think they see monsters there. The scale is absolutely staggering, it's just so much bigger and more formidable than you're prepared for. Urquhart Castle which stands on its bank is dwarfed by the Loch. The water is so dark due to peat that you can see maybe a couple of inches down. I get shivers just remembering it. No way in hell I would get a boat on there, let alone dive into the murk.

[@wanderer1955]

Loch Ness can hold the world's population TWICE OVER.

[@ChuckleHoneybear]

@@wanderer1955 *thrice

[@N0va1111]

Lol sometimes scientist forget there is 95% of the world that nobody has discovered there could be thousands or even millions of those and other animals

[@gearmachine_4885]

Yeah, but that refers to the depths of the ocean. Not the depths of Loch Ness. And sadly due to a dna probe of the water we know that the fish in the lake could not sustain such a big creature.

[@anonymousgoblin792]

@@gearmachine_4885 Your forget the fact that 10% of the dna found in Loch Ness went in categorized. There is still something there.

[@thomasbairagee5030]

No lie I actually went to Scotland and went to Loch Ness but didnt see the monster

[@richardgarcia7521]

It's called a fantasy. Just like Bigfoot.

[@redbaron1001]

@@richardgarcia7521 that might be so, but they're still fun to have in our history.

[@azuritecrow7110]

Being Scottish I will always believe that Nessie is real.

[@dr2stroke611]

being Scottish you will know all about kelpies then ?

[@azuritecrow7110]

@@dr2stroke611 Yes sir, Kelpies are Scottish water changing spirits that usually take form as a horse or a female

[@Joshua-jd1de]

@@azuritecrow7110 Nessie doesn’t exist, the legend is literally just created by sightings

[@azuritecrow7110]

@@Joshua-jd1de Please don't say that to a Scott. Also, you can say what you want but you won't be able to change what I believe. If I believe Nessie is real than she's real.

[@Joshua-jd1de]

@@azuritecrow7110 Why do you believe that

[@wheresmyparade]

It’s so annoying that all these Nat Geo videos aren’t either the entire episode or have any follow up videos! Always cut on a hanger without any conclusion

[@mrsharrington8077]

I watched this with my 5 year old cousin and when she saw the picture she was like "It's only Luca!"

[@botacct6522]

She thinks it is onion?

[@milaboudjakdji7207]

Btw realised that ppl created the souds of dinausors without even hearing it. Maybe they we're like "Mew"

[@Joem-yw2wl]

🤫🧏‍♂️

[@chopsyoutube]

that is so cool to think about

[@kilroy987]

It looks like a tiny thing sticking out of the water. The waves are so big and rounded around it, the object can't be much bigger than 2 feet across.

[@guntherthequizmaster9515]

The Loch Ness Monster supposed to be a sea serpent that people claim to see every so often. Yet nobody has ever taken a photograph of it. And I, for one, just plain believe in sea monsters.

[@wlfpup6072]

They have a recording of the loch Ness, what I saw was only just the tail of it. The loch Ness is really fast, heh, hope nessie doesn't eat humans

[@srikrsnahimself.7470]

no, its sea eIephant called g4jah min4

[@wlfpup6072]

@@srikrsnahimself.7470 ?

[@wlfpup6072]

@@srikrsnahimself.7470 really? Ok

[@themanwithnoname2857]

there was a photograph taken in the 70s or 80s from a submarine which captured Nessie and it was proven to be a genuine and unaltered photograph.

[@swaruparanipatnaik4780]

Some mysteries need to be remained unsolved

[@RamonaTheRed]

Agree. We'd destroy it. And any other cryptic in the name of science

[@drdre8789]

Especially Kappa of Japan

[@DivyanshiDiwa]

True

[@ph11p3540]

In Lake Okanogan, British Columbia, Canada, there is a similar serpent like monster legend called Ogopogo by the Haida Natives. If you visit Penticton or Kelowna you will often see all kinds of useless souvenir trinkets sold associated with this creature.

[@shutup2751]

giant eel is now almost certainly the logical explanation, a giant eel can grow upto almost 10 feet

[@thehoundofthegamingvilles2012]

Whale pp

[@jerryzhao3047]

This is very interesting. I wonder what if its really real? That would be interesting to me. And also scary. Anybody agree?

[@JamieDy1]

Nah man. I would say it's just a big eel

[@davidsohili7600]

I agree with ya.

[@JamieDy1]

@@davidsohili7600 It could be real

[@davidsohili7600]

@@JamieDy1 true

[@davidsohili7600]

@@JamieDy1 or it could be What you said

[@Shirokuma15]

Imagine if the photos just man pretending using their hand..😅😅

[@zs24689]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Why is this comment so funny. 😂😂

[@davidrobertson5700]

Stop calling Nessie a monster, she is Nessie...nothing else, when will you learn NESSIE Okay ? 😁

[@donkeykong6426]

how much of a shock it would if loch ness had two lake beasts

[@ChuckleHoneybear]

I went on a boat in Loch Ness yesterday and it's just a ... lake. Lol.

[@dannetteclark4935]

I saw this the other day when I was at redirect!

[@suereeves841]

Mabey it could be a eel

[@catalinasanimalcountry3985]

Nessy will all ways be their

[@albertcamus7807]

Will always be their what?

[@djzhor457]

@@albertcamus7807 all ways be their

[@20kprod.34]

One thing y’all are forgetting is the facts that the bodies of water no matter if it’s a lake ocean loch or river etc.. it’s never gonna be the same depth all the way there is little trenches in there that could pretty much hide a big enough sea creature like Nessie

[@thehoundofthegamingvilles2012]

Whale pp

[@kelvinh8327]

No mention that the Surgeon's photo was a hoax? He confessed on his death bed. Or is that an inconvenient fact?

[@gogetassgss8107]

Maybe loch ness monster is just a dinosaur

[@L34D308]

Loch Ness monster is actually a Plesiosaur

[@adamski27]

@@L34D308 no its not actually. Because most sightings of this monster are of its head sticking up out the water, showing its long neck. However plesiosaurs weren’t able to do that with their necks, and it would actually break its neck doing that. But even if it was one, trust me there would be way more sightings because plesiosaurs needed to resurface at-least 10 times or more in a day, which would mean that you would se its head sticking out quite a lot. Thank-you for reading

[@Naim2551]

@@adamski27 how do you know it doesn’t do that when ppl not there in the place at the time I think it is a plesiosaur all sightings and explanations hint there is nothing more it could of just evolved and re produced it self time and time again 😅😅😅

[@corvid5530]

@@L34D308 wrong because it’s not real, it’s just a tourist attraction.

[@MitjaKrempl]

Cool🎉

[@ashlynayala7741]

I had to search this up for my homework in avhoool

[@thelivingdead1728]

Homework and alcohol?

[@ashlynayala7741]

@@thelivingdead1728 i said I search this up for my homework in school

[@rishidangi2978]

That our kaliya nag bruh...

[@sirtalkalotdoolittle]

It's a pretty small gene pool to have survived for hundreds of millions of years. Also, I am not familiar with any case where something devolved from one stage of evolution to another -- in this situation from reptile to fish (skipping amphibians). The damage done by inbreeding corrupts within a few generations making descendants more vulnerable to disease and less intelligent (so less likely to survive). After a few hundred million years, whatever crawled into Loch Ness is either long extinct, evolved into something else higher up on the evolutionary scale, or (my guess) never existed in the first place. Plus Nessie has allegedly been there (and only there) for hundreds of millions of years and no one has ever found a carcass or even a mysterious bone?

[@keki4578]

Wrong, it exists

[@OlgaRomanovskaya-k3o]

I m not from America but l m from Russia or Belarus ❤

[@TeamLNE]

I’m way out my depth here (no pun intended) so I do apologies if I’m wrong. This simulation is very different from what other sonar reading have picked up. Most of the Loch is relatively flat but recent scans have shown a newly discovered depth, deeper than what George Edwards had previously found. The new depth sits at 889.

[@darkprose]

Sources?

[@Thankipad2]

ก็แค่ช้างดำนํ้า

[@fede2]

I need about tree fitty.

[@muskanarzo7975]

agree this monsters is real just now I saw its latest video

[@jesseprather8317]

Damn it Monsta we work for our money in this house! We don’t just give money away!!

[@libertyman3072]

✌🏿😜 Mais c'est moi !??

[@rescuemeal-4262]

That is a giant eel...: Researchers from newzeland

[@sajidaali5789]

omg we saw this creature in khanpur dam (pakistan) but strange thing is that it was only 7 to 8 feet long but this one is most bigger one that im pretty sure that it is really looks like this one may b its cousin like cat and cheetah and creature from the khanour dam and this creature

[@shlokram258]

Not possible

[@sajidaali5789]

ram takreeban 3 sal pehlay

[@sajidaali5789]

@Timothy Anthony people r just afraid from that dam however no one can swim in that dam bcoz of that cow monster... my villagers called him cow monster but believe me it's not any kind of cow thank God that I saw your lake monster earlier

[@abdulrazzaq5747]

im also from pak

[@sajidaali5789]

@@abdulrazzaq5747 mene kaha kio na inko b chutiya banaya jae Kio k kbi big foot kbi nessie kbi salenderman Ye subkoch sirf onko he dikhai deta hai To mene b ek gup chorr di. 😁

[@ocnbxng5038]

Think about it. If it still existed, a creature that big, what can it rely on to eat? Small fish here and there?? I don't think the resources are there for the legend to still exist. Same goes for my favourite animal megalodon

[@jaxsongawesome2947]

Whales eat plankton to survive so it might be plausible

[@Mitsuki.starria]

I agree, Like i highly doubt that it does even exist. Plus the creatures size is too big, i mean IF it was real, it would've to rely on big animals for its sustenance like Sharks or Whales but even that animals would be nothing for him. It's just a tourist attraction.

[@sieef3841]

10 submarines in there for a week and we will have the answer

[@HumanBeingSpawn]

The question is, would lochness exist given its physiology? Long neck and giant body?

[@tr7287]

Just drain the lake and debunk the myth once and for all

[@adammclaughlin845]

That would probably be beyond human technology. Anyone calling for Loch Ness to be actually drained has no idea of the scale of it.

[@tr7287]

@@adammclaughlin845 I was half kidding

[@AugustDeb]

Loch Ness is the largest loch by volume - it contains more water (7,452 million cubic metres) than all English and Welsh lakes together. Good luck with that. lol

[@tr7287]

@@AugustDeb it’s fine. If the government wants to do it then I’m sure they will find a way. Just build a pipeline to the ocean and drain it. Then fill it back up afterwards.

[@AugustDeb]

@@tr7287 The displacement of over a trillion gallons of water seems like a challenge...(Venice doesn't stand a chance.). I'll wait for the official announcement. (At least they gave up the theory of it being a whale's genitalia)! 😂

[@hafizahsyaza7678]

Nessie survive from meteor crash

[@ct3786]

It’s the guy from apex!

[@jumbo2143]

“Does the Loch Ness Monster exist?” This is a question about the objective level of reality. Some people believe that dinosaur-like animals really do inhabit Loch Ness. Others dismiss the idea as a fantasy or a hoax. Over the years, many attempts have been made to resolve the disagreement once and for all, using scientific methods such as sonar scans and DNA surveys. If huge animals live in the lake, they should appear on sonar, and they should leave DNA traces. Based on the availableevidence, the scientific consensus is that the Loch Ness Monster does not exist. (A DNA survey conducted in 2019 found genetic material from three thousand species, but no monster. At most, Loch Ness may contain some five-kilo eels.

[@samicu7424]

too scary

[@cloxdycoco7871]

I didnt know the Loch ness was still a thing lol

[@Liz-fm2jl]

I believe Nessie is real

[@scaredyet]

That looks like someone swimming taking a stroke

[@whoop5504]

Just drain the loch for real and see what's there 😃

[@xlantboi]

Impossible

[@suereeves841]

A giant one

[@tombaron5607]

Where’s part 2?

[@bhartley868]

I would like to see somebody do a computer model of all the water volume of the lock. Then computer generate a creature say 25 feet long swimming in that volume of water. I need to see the scale of things. I bet a 25 foot is a speck in that vast expanse of water. No wonder we do not see anything !

[@thecrazymonkeyboy1057]

nessie seems harmless

[@bobythomas2939]

I saw it it's real I am not joking

[@xismxist]

when and where? what did it look like?

[@gigawattbeehot0913]

Had found ‘ Bones ‘ by ‘ Nessie ‘ ? Until now ? If , it hadn’t found , Nessie ……. hasn’t ……. existed ……. ? Had he ? Fossils make their ‘ Existence ‘ to Exist Dinosaurs on this planet . ‘Cause , Nessie exists to need ‘ Find Bones ‘ . No bones , No Nessie .

[@mukbangalina9397]

1) Did you listen to the story about Loch Ness? 2) Is this story about Loch Ness true or false? 3) Where does Loch Ness live?

[@corvid5530]

Where does Loch Ness live??? What does that mean?

[@OfficialTutorial4Life]

Hum dude thats not a monster that's A seegull

[@Asifskitchenandtravel]

absolutely not

[@OfficialTutorial4Life]

A goose

[@sleepyislire6311]

@@OfficialTutorial4Life hmmmmm bug?

[@gogillergamer37]

I thought it was nessie ;-;

[@jamieward6998]

Just watch a movie about it

[@richardlambeth2343]

It's was not the lockness monster 🐍it was ET washing his neck before flying back home ☝️

[@junior36111]

It's a goose

[@someirishbloke5658]

If it is a alive then dinosaurs technicily still exist 95% of the ocean has not been expolored yet who knows

[@sandrafoxley735]

it must be very clever to stay hidden and find enough to eat and live so long - much cleverer than people with all their high tech gadgets......................

[@lukesky7934]

No way

[@blaznsoccer3997]

It was probably an oar fish

[@muskanarzo7975]

Its real monster I saw it in English volgrr video

[@MitjaKrempl]

😮

[@БахриддинАвлийокулов]

Is this real monster?

[@edwardlittle5541]

Funny how that photo actually looks more like someone's fore arm and wrist and fingers bent to make that shape. Just makes you wonder.😉

[@AddictedtoGaming324]

It is reall

[@FURINA-happy]

Loch Ness monster will be in a game called Roblox

[@michael676987]

Tripe!

[@kanashimu499]

I think that’s not a monster that must be a Dolphin or Whale tail maybe

[@matreyia]

That water scale of the waves is too big compared to the creature so it is obviously plastic toy or some fake wood sculpture. If the creature were real, the waves would show a very vast difference and be much smaller than the creature... see how some ripples are almost as big as the sculpture itself.

[@MitjaKrempl]

Pa kako oni to najdejo

[@Coby_marc12]

that's real??

[@milaboudjakdji7207]

What if it was a fucking swan Lmaooooo

[@mnljh711986]

The Loch Ness Monster was probably just a whale.

[@ddclgaming8062]

Dinosaur?

[@dr2stroke611]

kelpie

[@404show2]

Im Scottish

[@cherry-zp6cd]

That why I have seaphobia...

[@SirCatGD]

real or not,nobody knows :)))

[@rangersnut]

It just looks like an arm.

[@梶原啓弐]

ネッシーもほぼフェイクな事は十分理解しているけど、何％かは事実だと思います。

[@valiantredneck]

What a load. I remember when National Geographic was a reputable company. To bad everything now is sensationalized garbage.

[@shaxnozaropiyeva-p1j]

menim cha yoq narsa

[@taichansenayan921]

I think is fake because the movie name sea horse had this picture

[@edvardsvanags2669]

what is that

[@joethesnipermain]

*drunk black scottish cyclops noises*

[@ajjandamj3379]

what

[@joegolfer9372]

The pic was actually faked by a couple of doctors back in the 30s

[@muskanarzo7975]

pic fake but This monster exit

[@franciscocastillo8002]

That photo is fake is a toy You can see is it is obious !!

[@字伏-o4r]

why people still talk about Ness,the whole thing is a hoax all made by that doctor who made that famous fake Ness pic😂😂😂

[@Lilly_288]

Bird

[@queenclaudiaii2938]

"It was an albatross." ~ Queen Claudia II

[@anitakoch3895]

Is that all??!!@

[@oscaranims3437]

demoman led me here

[@asianperk]

How did people know how dinosaurs looked like?😕😐😑

[@MaddyGrace09]

They found fossils.

[@cameronsims2243]

Killers your going to kill it

[@itsumi8128]

That looks like a duck

[@evolanomrac9531]

No loch ness that's fake

[@corvid5530]

Do you mean the monster or the Loch it’s self

[@Abuamer-i5z]

It’s not real no

[@facundogonzalez3167]

Hola quiero diamantes en free fire

[@GrafMKristo]

BS. From the same BS pool as mayan calendar.