February 6, 2008
The man behind May 2007’s video is returning to Loch Ness. Gordon Holmes is going to experiment with new technology to try to capture Nessie, at least with a camera.
Holmes has emailed me with the breaking news he is going back to Loch Ness this year with “NET –> NESSIE 2008.”
He writes it will be the…
…’smallest’ ever attempt to obtain proof of any large unknown Creature swimming in Loch Ness. Basically, it is a radio-controlled boat with sonar and a wireless-linked CCTV camera monitoring the sonar screen. The idea is, I stand on the shore obtaining video footage on my laptop from the camera inside the boat. As you will appreciate, this is cutting edge science so there is no guarantee the gear will operate when required.Gordon Holmes, February 6, 2008.
The cryptogadget has been christened the “St. Columba.”
On August 22 in AD 565, at the River Ness, St. Columba came across a group of Picts who were burying a man killed by an unknown creature that today is linked to the Loch Ness Monster. Art by Bill Rebsamen.
Below is the CNN report on Holmes’ earlier video. This is the media report that stimulated these two quotations:
Jerry Clark noted that what was operating here, in counterpoint to my view, was, The Nickell principle: “We will take up an existence by its otters.”
Coincidentially, another friend and coauthor, Patrick Huyghe emailed me: “Joe was otterly ridiculous.”
Please refer to “The Nessie Story,” in The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep, for more historical details.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
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