Jeremy Wade Tackles Nessie
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on March 1st, 2013
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This groundbreaking new season will culminate with a special Memorial Day two-hour season finale on Monday, May 27, at 9 pm ET/PT, which may just uncover the mother of all RIVER MONSTERS. For more than 30 years as a professional angler, Wade has gone head to head with the world’s most legendary RIVER MONSTERS – but there’s one legend he has yet to tackle – that of the Loch Ness Monster. Wade will take viewers along on an epic mission from the depths of Loch Ness to the volcanoes of Iceland to track down the world’s most famous water-dwelling monster.
THERE ARE MONSTERS STILL OUT THERE… ANIMAL PLANET’S “RIVER MONSTERS” AND ANGLER JEREMY WADE PLUNGE INTO THE MOST DRAMATIC SEASON YET
— Best-Performing Series in Network History Follows Jeremy Wade’s Worldwide Search for Murky Man Killers —
February 28, 2013
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(New York, New York, February 28, 2013) – There may come a time when the question of what lurks below is answered. But that time isn’t now. For four successful seasons of Animal Planet’s RIVER MONSTERS, host, biologist and extreme angler Jeremy Wade has searched for answers, taking viewers along as he unravels fish tales of giant killers – where sometimes the fact is stranger than the fiction!
In its new season, RIVER MONSTERS takes treacherous and mysterious to new heights with the most dangerous adventures of Wade’s lifetime. His journeys include a mission to Chernobyl’s nuclear wastelands in search of mutant fish in a tick-tock race against time to avoid radiation exposure, a trip to Nicaragua to capture an elusive killer torpedo, and a bloodthirsty quest on American soil in pursuit of a prehistoric underwater vampire. These fantastic voyages kick off on Sunday, April 7, at 9 PM (ET/PT) with the monster-sized season opener – “Face Ripper.”
“I realize there will come a point at which my searching must come to an end – once I’ve found every river monster and all the world’s underwater mysteries are solved,” says Wade. “That time hasn’t come; this season of RIVER MONSTERS continues to drive my quest to reveal the fascinating mysteries of the deep.”
The eye-opening RIVER MONSTERS season premiere, “Face Ripper,” brings viewers along as Wade investigates a horrific death in a Bolivian river. In an area crawling with cocaine smugglers, Jeremy treks through the dangerous jungle to discover the fresh water beast that ripped a man’s face to shreds. Wade is astonished when one of his oldest adversaries reveals some new behavior – but will he already be in too deep to learn a new lesson? It’s a horrific mystery that Wade is intent on solving.
This groundbreaking new season will culminate with a special Memorial Day two-hour season finale on Monday, May 27, at 9 pm ET/PT, which may just uncover the mother of all RIVER MONSTERS. For more than 30 years as a professional angler, Wade has gone head to head with the world’s most legendary RIVER MONSTERS – but there’s one legend he has yet to tackle – that of the Loch Ness Monster. Wade will take viewers along on an epic mission from the depths of Loch Ness to the volcanoes of Iceland to track down the world’s most famous water-dwelling monster.
RIVER MONSTERS is a co-production of Icon Films and Animal Planet. Harry and Laura Marshall are the executive producers for Icon Films. For Animal Planet, Lisa Lucas is the executive producer, with production support from Jamie Linn and Patrick Keegan. RIVER MONSTERS was developed by Animal Planet’s Charlie Foley.
All four seasons of RIVER MONSTERS are available for purchase at AnimalPlanetStore.com. Jeremy Wade’s book, River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones that Didn’t Get Away, is in bookstores.
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Sweet–I remember hearing this at the end of last season and have been waiting. 🙂 Look forward to see what he has to say.
I seriously doubt he caught Nessie or there’d be a big hulla-balloo…but I’ll still tune in. 🙂
I have always wondered when he would go after Nessie or Champ. I absolutely cannot wait as River Monsters is a great show. It will also be some nice news for another cryptid now that Melba/FB has made a fiasco out of bigfoot.
champ I’d love to see… i mean those echolocation things… that sounded SO interesting…. seems to be more evidence for champ than nessie it seems…. or even ogopogo…. strangely you RARELY hear anything about either anymore… wonder why?
I think Mr.Wade’s epic mission (Loch Ness Monster) more attract viewers, then a Champ or Ogopogo quest.
Sad:
If there are large unidentified animals living in some fresh water lakes, the Loch Ness is the last place I would search. The water is the cold and color of coffee.
Okanagan Lake or Lake Champlain are much better options.
kbraun – interesting… ya… i’d tend to agree with you…
and maybe the alaskan one… that video looked really interesting… does anyone know what happened with that?
its just odd though…. if these things all had to breathe air, like a dolphin, whale etc…. wouldn’t there be a LOT more sightings?
i mean those lakes are FULL of boats and people… and the lakes are limited (albeit big) confined areas (or are they?)
During May 2012, Jeremy Wade was at Lake Champlain filming an episode for the show. Don’t believe he caught Champ. Maybe he’ll have better luck at Loch Ness.
As for those echolocation findings from 2003 on Discovery Channel, they were taken by Fauna Communications Research Institute in Hillsborough, N.C. Elizabeth von Muggenthaler, the President, is not a scientist and no one in mainstream science takes her work seriously. Dennis J. Hall now works there which is all you need to know.
The Alaskan one was in salt water….
If there are large unidentified animals living in some fresh water lakes..
In my opinion (other then eyewitnesses) , best evidence …..
Loch Ness : Dinsdale footage, Holmes video, Robert Rines neck and body photograph
Champ: Dick Affolter / Pete Bodette video , Sandra Mansi photograph, Elizabeth von Muggenthaler bio-sonar signals
Ogopogo: Folden Film, Larry Thai Film , John Casorso video
Take care,
dinsdale – interesting… no clue what the heck is swimming there… but too blurry and shot too far away to say one way or the other.. so to me, that doesn’t count.
holmes – same thing… no clue, but theres nothing there to say ‘this is an unidentified creature”, so again, i cant’ count it.
Dick Affolter / Pete Bodette video – whatever it is, is SO far away… how can someone say that is a lake monster? cant count this one either.
mansi photo is nuts…. BUT its only 1 still, some have said it could be a tree come up out of the water… is this possible?
the bio sonar i saw on tv… thought it was nuts… i mean only whales and dolphin are able to do this… so is champ a type of whale that has evolved into swimming in fresh water?
how does it breed? there must be more of them to sustain a population
if it breathes, where does it hang out?
why aren’t there more sightings of them?
so many questions.
couldn’t find the rest.
rines photo is very very interesting… yet the photo shows VERY weird limbs on this thing
i take a guy like robert rines, and to me, he is 100% believable…. and legit… he has credibility to me…. he says he saw something and kept coming back to find it.
you dont do this unless something MAJOR happened. he had to have seen something extraordinary.
“dinsdale – interesting… no clue what the heck is swimming there… but too blurry and shot too far away to say one way or the other.. so to me, that doesn’t count.”
IMHO the Dinsdale footage is too far away , however the subject seems to submerge for approx 20 -30 seconds. Not a boat.
“Dick Affolter / Pete Bodette video – whatever it is, is SO far away… how can someone say that is a lake monster? cant count this one either.”
Not too far away, right nest to the boat in the final sequence.
“the bio sonar i saw on tv… thought it was nuts… i mean only whales and dolphin are able to do this… so is champ a type of whale that has evolved into swimming in fresh water?”
I stand corrected. It seems Elizabeth von Muggenthaler bio-sonar signals, “no one in mainstream science takes her work seriously”, are bogus.
“mansi photo is nuts…. BUT its only 1 still, some have said it could be a tree come up out of the water… is this possible? ”
One heck of a tree.
“how does it breed? there must be more of them to sustain a population
if it breathes, where does it hang out?
why aren’t there more sightings of them?”
I don’t know.
I also think Mr. Rines is credible.
didnt see what you saw in the bodette video…
the biosonar stuff in champlain was bogus??? (dont tell me this lol)
the mansi photo… hard to really tell without the negative or other photos…. but man… what a photo that is….. (what the hell is it of tho?)
Elizabeth von Muggenthaler is SCIENTIST. Where do you get your facts. Her Champ echolocation work was very scientific and well documented. You can actually track the creatures by it’s sounds. Many are working on a way to do this with high resolution hydrophones. The US Navy may be the first to do this with a DARPA initiative to track submarines and other hidden submersibles that make sounds underwater.
Just so you know: The late Dr. Rines and Dr. Mackal recorded the SAME echolocation signals at Loch Ness in the 1970’s. Mrs. Mackal has the audio cassette tapes but is not releasing them just yet. The creatures are closely related. The closest creatures that do the same underwater are Beluga and Orca whales but Champ and Nessie are NOT whales.
The creatures at Lake Okanagan and Lake Labynkyr Siberia may also be track-able by sound. Someone should work on such an invention and trial it at these lakes. They could become very rich if they can perfect a high-resolution underwater sound tracking system better than US Navy’s old SOSUS system.
BTW you can enhance underwater photography in murky littoral waters (IE Loch Ness) with diverged 538-532 nanometer blue-green laser beam. Another USN gadget tht you could get rich on if you could develop it for commercialuse before Northrop Grumman Corp. Aerospace Systems beats you to it…