Comments on: The Nessie Files

By: wuffing

wuffing — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:38:30 +0000

SHJ – Dr Robert Rines had a plan to take two dolphins, one of which was called Molly I think, from the USA to Loch Ness to hunt for Nessie back in 1979. While they were being trained at the New England Aquarium one of them died and the plan was abandoned. They were to be kept in saltwater pens except when actually hunting for Nessie. It wasn’t a secret.

By: Nick Redfern

Nick Redfern — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 21:14:38 +0000

SHJ:

There are quite a few sea-serpent reports (Navy, old Admiralty files) at the Archives, as well as the British military’s JARIC files on their analysis of the Tim Dinsdale footage. A lot of material on big cats sightings is now surfacing too via the Freedom of Information Act from various regional police forces in the UK. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there is a lot more too. One of the big problems is knowing where to look for some of the files at the Archives, as they are pretty obscure and the relevant documents are sometimes tucked away in files with titles that are sometimes nothing to do with the contents!

By: springheeledjack

springheeledjack — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:10:26 +0000

What, were they going to strap cameras to dolphins and send them down? Even then, who knows if the dolphins would have investigated murky water dwelling monsters or stayed as far away as possilbe? Or the possibility arises that maybe they would have attacked Nessie and possibly taken it out of the ecosystem altogether.

Plenty of examples of introducing non-indigenous species into new environments only to wreak havoc. Probably wasn’t that good of an idea in the first place and saner heads prevailed in that case.

As for File Nessie…did they mention what else they’ve got? There’s quite a few lochs and bodies of water around Scotland that boast critters…some even off shore.