He designed two major refurbishments of the Drumnadrochit presentation which has earned the full endorsement of Scottish Natural Heritage and a 5 star rating from the Scottish Tourist Board. If we had to image what the world’s biggest expert on the Loch Ness monster looks like… this is probably what we’d all conjure up. In 1987, he conducted “Operation Deepscan,” a sonar sweep of Loch Ness that drew worldwide media interest, changing the focus from the Loch Ness monster to the lake’s food chain and internal waves, raising knowledge of lake physics. As for now, I am not the only one, but we are looking for clusters of things and some phenomena, genuine phenomena, that might underly what people are seeing. This week, the team found a 30ft Loch Ness monster model that featured in the film ‘The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’.

Lakes are a good example, they always have this mirror-like quality this other-world, this liminal quality, a threshold. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . There is currently an exhibition on the loch-side, which explains some of the illusions the loch can cause, and includes Adrian's own submersible, which he has used to conduct underwater investigations. I don’t believe that the levels of belief in the Loch Ness Monster are as high, no, and I would say that they were definitely lower, and I think they have been lower since the end of the 70’s actually, when society became more pragmatic. He has been involved with Highlands fieldwork since 1973 when he built the “Machan,” a manned underwater observation chamber.But the prevailing idea was that it was a joke, and worse than that, the other prevailing idea was that the industry foisted on gullible gullible tourists. SB: Do you think this shift in semantic is a general change we are seeing in the world, or does it have any elements that are isolated at Loch Ness?

And there was even one student who I gave a similar talk to, who wrote about the similarities between religion and some people’s belief in the Loch Ness Monster, actually wrote his dissertation on it. Invited and gave support to three seismic operations over two decades, shedding light upon the retreat of the Great Glen glacier.

More than 200,000 tourists from across the globe visit the loch each year, in the hopes of catching a glimpse of this fabled water-beast. Now actually, it doesn’t overturn the theory of evolution in any way, but an interesting development that I must mention, is the Creationist movement. Of course tourism is a wider thing anyway, and the road system is conducive to people passing here, you cant deny the geography of the place. AS: There will be a minority of people who would like to believe but there are an even larger group of people who would like their world reconfirmed.