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

[@Gokash4672]

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

[@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).

[@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.

[@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.

[@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😊🎉

[@twizbrown2126]

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

[@FiveStar-u6f]

By not showing any state of his existence

[@jenpink4298]

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

[@jesusmacias5470]

It's one of the most amazing unbelievable Legends over the world. Nessie never exist.

[@DanielAbisaiRosalesZelaya]

this video is a masterpiece

[@donabellahardeneravlogs790]

Thanks for the effort of documenting this significant place!

[@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.

[@CatheyLunsford]

Dna done on water it's a giAnt eel

[@CatheyLunsford]

Pleasure are showing up in every leg lake Chernobyl poisoned loch

[@hayeonkim7838]

Thanks for beautiful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤

[@user-vk5yn7lt7p]

Thank you for breaking it down so clearly!

[@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.🦕

[@cdfdesantis699]

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

[@maggieo6672]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing. ❤️😊

[@Ms_Atheist_Nebula]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@christopherwoodson7162]

It wasn't a " tiny wave " lol

[@Breaking.Bias23]

Very interesting and interesting video👍

[@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

[@nasimialiev6314]

I live in Berlin and we have in a forest in the city area a lake called Lake of Devil if we translate literally from German (originally Teufelssee). Somewhen the people believed that the devil lived inside those waters. It’s astonishing that tourists don’t to our lake in mass as those who come to Loch Ness.

[@djtu7280]

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

[@yusumnn2007]

So have ghosts

[@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.

[@nasimialiev6314]

What the legends fascinate the people for is the matter you can’t really prove whether it’s true or wrong. The Loch Ness monster is a clear evidence to that.

[@muaoribia4140]

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

[@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

[@jeremydion9460]

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

[@dung20.aominh72]

Another video about loch Ness please

[@anastasiabeaverhausen8220]

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

[@chris.asi_romeo]

I like Drain the Oceans. 💯👏

[@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?

[@lovinlifeinmaine9342]

We have those rings here in Maine during the winter.

[@rtx2070...]

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

[@fansizhe9997]

Incredible story!!!👍👏🏻😍😍😍

[@nasimialiev6314]

I’ve been once at the lake of Como in Italy and watched then a documentary about that place. Any monsters would have been seen, told the moderator. The difference is that the world doesn’t know them as well as that of the Loch Ness. Anyway, the life was more boring without legends of this sort.

[@japanneedsjesus]

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

[@Azmat-khan563]

Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

[@sandirr9955]

I genuinely think that the Lochness monster is exist, and its a Plesiosaurus trapped in that lake

[@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

[@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 😂

[@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

[@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.

[@JaysonTripp-r5d]

Ain't nothing in that lock just a big brackish hole filled with deep water

[@Nypromi]

Looks like someone in mid swing while swimming almost.

[@gaul793]

Jörmungand 🌊🐍🌊

[@kristijannastoski7059]

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

[@Neverforget71324]

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

[@ChrisRyan101]

Would be really great if marine reptiles weren't called dinosaurs anymore.

[@paulzawertany7908]

More than one creature in the loch

[@ant-1382]

Munin. How appropriate a name for a seeker.

[@edbrown6985]

It's been pretty much settled that there is no nessie.there isn't enough food for it in the lake, definitely not enough to support a breeding population of them . which you would need to still have them around.possible yes, probable no.

[@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?

[@fredclements6843]

I’m here for the beans

[@shivexshivute1382]

Our Datas 😅😅

[@Lancewanderer]

Finally lochness monster put to an end😊

[@jamisonrea2345]

It's not

[@tracidavis3565]

I enjoyed The Waterhorse

[@Anyaroldan]

Crusoe 😢❤

[@lotturner6690]

I’ve seen it. I’ve seen it again.

[@specialized29er86]

Gaint Eels

[@gregrowell8688]

I agree Jeff. The surgeon's photo has been debunked. Read book called Nessi by Nick Redfern. It's pretty good.

[@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....

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

Plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs

[@reyskypony6909]

I think your videos are beautiful and valuable

[@JaysonTripp-r5d]

I bet my life there is 15 foot eels in that Loch I seen 5 foot freshwater eels caught out of small ponds

[@user-sl3kb3cz4y]

By the way I like those scientific instruments

[@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

[@basildog007]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@kaitokid6090]

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

[@frostbitetheannunakiiceind6574]

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

[@TheHarper11]

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

[@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.

[@Raw_Hitz]

Nessie gave birth to Messi

[@BillAngelos]

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

[@melonybedia7831]

water horse its like the movie

[@frankhernandez6883]

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

[@masterChiZhee]

It's an orca dorsal fin 🤦‍♂️

[@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.

[@ReaperGaming500]

what if he left the lake and now in pecific ocean

[@daydairy]

I think it is a snake 😮

[@suparkon]

Jeremy everest the geologist...😂 How coincidence

[@UsThemis]

💞

[@voycressv460]

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

[@jaredfavaro7453]

NEW EPISODE.....from years ago

[@JaysonTripp-r5d]

Nothing in that Loch except Sturgeon Eeels a few escapees from the ocean like dolphins and probably huge cat fish ain't no monster in there Eeels giant Eeels just like big foot they are there but no one ever sees them 😂

[@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...

[@mrwest5552]

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

[@user-fi6qr8wb9u]

I think it was 65 million years ago

[@MDeLorien]

The lake is only 10 thousand years old 😊

[@alterego4727]

What if,,that lake just a gate

[@chongchonsong7991]

❤

[@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.