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Secrets of Loch Ness (Full Episode) | Drain the Oceans
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[@Gokash4672]

Even if it’s untrue, it’s very entertaining!👍🤩🇨🇦

[@ViktorAndy]

I wish this creature existed but at the same time i don't. You know that if it did, we would hunt it down.

[@Gokash4672]

@@ViktorAndy very true!

[@matusknives]

It would have been hunted down centuries ago.

[@zacharyashby813]

@@matusknivesmyth about jowj😅eta😂😂pe❤rr o reg he was le red

[@jsl1952]

we in British Columbia, Canada, have a supposed lake monster -Ogoppogo, at Lake Okanogan.

[@Dzokhar]

I've heard people claim this has something to do with the way pike reproduce. There are a lot of these legends in lakes with pike.

[@jenpink4298]

Absolutely fascinating! But I’m still holding out hope for Nessie❤

[@intignia]

Don't forget that Tim Dinsdale did a thorough study of the Loch Ness monster back before we had all this high tech stuff. He interviewed someone (or maybe it was himself) who had actually seen the monster out of the water along the side of the lake. This is back when the road surrounding the loch was small and there was a lot less traffic.

[@twizbrown2126]

28 years later😂. Loch Ness seems to be trolling us land creatures

[@FiveStar-u6f]

By not showing any state of his existence

[@amia7999]

Drain the Oceans! Every episode is fascinating. Love it!

[@carrieandretti]

Me 2!!♥️ I say, Drain it! So excited to see what been hiding from view😊🎉

[@TheDadFaxs]

I remember back in the 90s they put a line of boats with sonar and went from one end of the lock to the other. Along with that play head underwater cameras which took a picture that looked like the patrol fin of a water bound dinosaur.

[@anastasiabeaverhausen8220]

After it was computer enhanced and airbrushed.

[@TheDadFaxs]

@@anastasiabeaverhausen8220 kind of hard to airbrush a video. I believe they also had a deep water camera. And they were videotaping the screen when it went by.

[@donabellahardeneravlogs790]

Thanks for the effort of documenting this significant place!

[@DanielAbisaiRosalesZelaya]

this video is a masterpiece

[@maggieo6672]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. ❤️😊

[@user-vk5yn7lt7p]

Thank you for breaking it down so clearly!

[@cdfdesantis699]

Cool to see "Drain the Ocean" explore Loch Ness & its ubiquitous Nessie.

[@hayeonkim7838]

Thanks for beautiful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤

[@TheHighlanderX]

Thank you 🖖🏻🥃

[@fritziepisarski8681]

I’ve loved watching D the O . It’s amazingly to see the technology. It’s one of my favorite shows. That being said, I think i rather still believe there is a Nessie. Since I was a child I have been fascinated by the idea that there could be a prehistoric creature in the loch. While in my heart I know the truth, Nessie will always be the most fascinating of all creatures.🦕

[@Atheist_OvoVegetarian]

زۆر سوپاس بۆ دابینکردنی ئەم بابەتە سەرسوڕهێنە وەک هەمیشە کارەکانتان مەزنە ❤

[@Breaking.Bias23]

Very interesting and interesting video👍

[@notmyworld44]

You know they never find anything, but it's still sort of interesting.

[@epiccurious3536]

OMG! What could cause a tiny wave in a lake?! I just can't imagine anything else but a fake monster! LMAO

[@2l84t]

Otters playing chase. Giant fresh water eel.

[@Azmat-khan563]

Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

[@rtx2070...]

When standing next to a certain lake, people will more or less imagine something mysterious under the lake.

[@michaelcondrey8681]

First of all that picture the famous one is fake when I first saw that picture in the early eighties I knew it was fake

[@chris.asi_romeo]

I like Drain the Oceans. 💯👏

[@billshogun7068]

This doc is basically,this is what people are mistaking for a lake monster.It’s been proven that there is not enough fish in Loch Ness to support even a small population of lake monsters.

[@muaoribia4140]

They should have Erik Todd Dellums voice over one of these Drain the Ocean eps. I'd "dig it" even more!

[@anastasiabeaverhausen8220]

Always look to the Chamber of Commerce. A local legend is good for business.

[@jeremydion9460]

If the Loch Ness monster is good enough for Drain the Oceans, surely a Baltic Sea Anomaly episode can’t be far off.

[@votrung227]

As a Vietnamese kid , I used to think that there was a dinosaur alive in this lake 😂 and I thought about it all time

[@dung20.aominh72]

Another video about loch Ness please

[@notoriousbigmoai1125]

There is a logical flaw when you use a Coelacanth as a yardstick to determine whether other extinct animals can still be alive like Megalodons and Plesiosauruses. Firstly, it was rediscovered in 1938, a time when we didn't have any advanced technologies to find hidden species of animals so that is the reason why it gained so much popularity. If a Plesiosaurus that was a hundred times bigger than a Coelacanth was still alive, we would have discovered it a long time ago. Secondly, the Coelacanth has well-adapted lungs to breathe in low-oxygen environments and requires little food to survive (they have a very slow metabolism) which is why they can live in deep-cold water. Megalodon and Plesiosaurus, on the other hand, are coastal sea creatures with high metabolism that require a large amount of food to eat every day. They are massive and they cannot remain in deep water with nothing to eat for very long. Also, these creatures can not breathe in low-oxygen environments like the Coelacanth (their paleontological anatomies proved it).

[@thegodofstealth8456]

For those that dont know Jeremy Wade did an episode to find the Loch Ness monster and found out that it is greenland sharks.

[@djtu7280]

The monster has disappeared ever since the cameras became advanced. How fascinating the nature is

[@yusumnn2007]

So have ghosts

[@lovinlifeinmaine9342]

We have those rings here in Maine during the winter.

[@andrewswathching]

It seems to me that Nessie needs a lawyer. If the witnesses only saw waves, then why aren't there similar 'monsters' in other lakes around the world?

[@japanneedsjesus]

What do ancient alien astronaut physicists have to say? Ancient alien astronaut physicists say YES!

[@caroleminke6116]

I lived on the shore of Lake Champlain in Vermont during much of these investigations & we supposedly had our own lake monster, but although I saw many interesting things emerge from the deep cold waters, I never thought for a moment that they were anything but optical or photographic illusions. Excellent for Vermont publicity as well as tourism though

[@fansizhe9997]

Incredible story!!!👍👏🏻😍😍😍

[@Neverforget71324]

Did anyone check on James May's whereabouts during these sightings?

[@kristijannastoski7059]

Looks like a spin-off to the recent papa jake pond monster videos ❤❤❤😂😂😂🇨🇦

[@Nypromi]

Looks like someone in mid swing while swimming almost.

[@ant-1382]

Munin. How appropriate a name for a seeker.

[@gaul793]

Jörmungand 🌊🐍🌊

[@shivexshivute1382]

Our Datas 😅😅

[@Beauty_In_Simplicity]

It's a large sturgeon or eel, something like that. 😊 Lake Champlain has one too, called Champ!

[@jamisonrea2345]

Large eels or sturgeon don't have long necks that are attached to there bodies

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

if they are plesiosaurs why couldnt they have just swam in AFTER the glacier melted?

[@fredclements6843]

I’m here for the beans

[@paulzawertany7908]

More than one creature in the loch

[@quacksackerthegreatstarfir6996]

If you look at the sonar probe they launched the distortion from the waves make it look like it's a living, moving object....

[@straightshooterz]

I think k there’s a deep cave in the lake I also think lochness is actually a humongous serpent. See how an anaconda snake swims, would be similar to what eyewitness see in the lake

[@user-sl3kb3cz4y]

By the way I like those scientific instruments

[@UsThemis764]

💞

[@unmlksh]

People might have seen a Greenland Shark and thought it to be a monster. This could be a possible explanation of the origin of the legend of Loch Ness monster.

[@lotturner6690]

I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it again.

[@mattm597]

It would have to surface dozens of times every day for air---in one of the most popular and visited tourist destinations in Europe. I don't think so.

[@reyskypony6909]

I think your videos are beautiful and valuable

[@Anyaroldan]

Crusoe 😢❤

[@tracidavis3565]

I enjoyed The Waterhorse

[@kaitokid6090]

i have seen it 1 time i live near it one time i see a head and a hump

[@basildog007]

For 4 years, Japanese scientists have tried to blow Nessie out of the water. We need to help our underwater friend!

[@melonybedia7831]

water horse its like the movie

[@voycressv460]

Are they or you so sure it does not exist , what if it does exist ,hmm, hmm. food for thought.

[@frankhernandez6883]

didn't St. "I swear to god" see the monster out of the water back in the 16th century?

[@TheHarper11]

Loch Ness is only 10,000 years old. The plesiosaurs died millions of years ago. Whatever it is, it isn't a plesiosaur.

[@specialized29er86]

Gaint Eels

[@chongchonsong7991]

❤

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

Plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs

[@BillAngelos]

Is natgeo turning into the history channel? Why TF is this on natgeo?

[@suparkon]

Jeremy everest the geologist...😂 How coincidence

[@mrwest5552]

wait, if i watch the vid, will the ? LN secrets still be secrets ?

[@jaredfavaro7453]

NEW EPISODE.....from years ago

[@JeffH6158]

You lose all credibility when you highlight a photo debunked multiple times as a model created by an individual to fool the public.

[@kevinlprod]

That the purpose… Put this picture to debunked if… 😅

[@carrieandretti]

Got it! Thx!

[@livbradley4577]

National Geographic is not losing credibility over a photo on a topic that most people recognize as a myth! People with half a brain would be able to put together this is for entertainment they are just using photos that are available because there aren’t any actual photos.

[@TheC4Aguirre]

It’s called clickbate

[@skankhunt434]

Cry about it

[@masterChiZhee]

It's an orca dorsal fin 🤦‍♂️

[@chrislickteig5986]

As a Kid this was so interesting to me. As a adult I don't think there is a dinosaur swimming around. There would have to be a population of them for there to be even 1

[@gookawild5543]

They are all idiots. Especially the guy that was waiting 28 years later 🤡

[@DeborahThird-og1uo]

Coelacanth……. 😉

[@japanneedsjesus]

There is some whale or shark that can live for 300 years. So maybe Nessie just has a long life span?

[@agatha9071]

He just wanted $2,50. Edit: 3,50 my bad XD

[@japanneedsjesus]

It was $3.50! Actually it was tree fidy!

[@agatha9071]

@@japanneedsjesus Oh that's true hahaha

[@frankhernandez6883]

I think Bull sharks can go from salt water to fresh

[@sheilatruax6172]

They can

[@frankhernandez6883]

@@sheilatruax6172 thanks

[@ghostshirt1984]

​@@sheilatruax6172bull sharks live in warm salt and fresh water so not a bull shark.

[@ghostshirt1984]

Bull sharks only swim in warm salt and fresh water and Scotland is with cold water.

[@ghostshirt1984]

​@@sheilatruax6172not in cold water.

[@Lancewanderer]

Finally lochness monster put to an end😊

[@jamisonrea2345]

It's not

[@sharlharmakhis280]

The likelihood of there being a breeding population of plesiosaurs (air-breathing creatures, may I remind y'all) in Loch Ness, which didn't even *exist* during the age of the great marine reptiles, is nil. Most of what people are seeing is boat wakes, sturgeon (those things can get *monstrously* huge), driftwood, or some other natural phenomenon, with a healthy dose of wishful thinking and folklore attached. The rest is the result of pranksters.

[@leo.053]

to keep tourism alive everyone tells lies about this story

[@bitchn_betty]

With all the cell phones around I don't think nearly as many people believe in Nessy. I'm traveling there this fall because it's by Inverness, I recognize the name and there is a glass blower in fort Augustus. I don't believe in a monster. There could possibly be a marine animal that has eluded scientists , but it's unlikely.

[@carrieandretti]

Keeping their Nessie fantasy alive. However years later, in this vid, it looks like they actually believe in it!! 😮

[@user-nu1fh4qt4w]

Actually I dont believe this either. But there can be an unfound monster in this black dark waters

[@jamisonrea2345]

How are they lies. Just because some then has never been found, Does meant that it doesn't exist

[@ghostshirt1984]

No dinosaurs alive 😂

[@taymazdizali1894]

I saw a ducumentary film about this monster fourty years ago containing that old film kadrs in this ducumentary. If this monster once existed now it not exist anymore.

[@carrieandretti]

They gotta sell the Nessie trinkets... it's a fun fantasy 😊

[@jamisonrea2345]

That wake theory doesn't solve anything. What about the neck an head that people had being seeing from Nessy. An at no time over the pictures of nessy has anyone that I know of or heard about, seen any kind of boat anywhere the loch

[@Desperado070]

3:22 that can be a billion things, even a branch that floated around mostly submerged except for that piece you see. People just want to believe in fairy tales it seems. I wonder if their life is so boring that that is why they do these things.

[@user-fi6qr8wb9u]

I think it was 65 million years ago

[@MDeLorien]

The lake is only 10 thousand years old 😊

[@monkeypolice3048]

Omg when is people going to wake up. ("Log")ness monster.

[@NeilMacMillan-fb3hd]

as regards the Loch Ness Monster the proof is in the pudding the only thing that matters is concrete proof anything other than that is irrelevant

[@alterego4727]

What if,,that lake just a gate

[@Raw_Hitz]

Nessie gave birth to Messi

[@lippa2105]

Sure, yeah. Now explain the Loch Ness attack of the 1600's. Surely it couldn't have been a wake.

[@anthonydavis2156]

it is real

[@gookawild5543]

That's what she said...

[@daydairy]

I think it is a snake 😮

[@lavoye71]

Dna nothing monster

[@user-cn2ny1zz4h]

Entretienen pero no convencen

[@kenneth4882]

LochNess, Unicorn, BigFoot, Dragon… they all exist if you believe in them 😅

[@ecsyntric]

well tried disney

[@GinArgent]

Even its fake, if you believe it Enough its become real 😅

[@SherryXLynn-zl7zz]

If people would part with the THEORY of millions and billions.....things make so much more sense.

[@2l84t]

6000? 🤣🤣🤣

[@SherryXLynn-zl7zz]

@@2l84t it's not even that....they can never say what formula they use to get BILLIONS of anything. And they won't, because there isn't one. There is NO known method for dating anything in the billions.

[@Backedone-ss5vw]

Add some space & science episodes. I know you have many episodes and renound scientists are in that episodes.

[@v.e.7236]

I find it comical to believe any dinosaur could survive in a underwater cave, let alone survive an ice age. These creatures would still need to breath, as they had no gills. Or maybe we're talking a "hollow earth" scenario? Cool science and all, but really silly to think such a creature could exist. Nice fantasy.

[@libertyblueskyes2564]

whales don't have long necks. And neither do waves. you scientists are reaching.