Comments on: 2007: Bownessie Monster

By: theSnark

theSnark — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 03:49:18 +0000

It’s a fish that has interrupted an otherwise pretty photo of a clear lake.

By: wuffing

wuffing — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:51:32 +0000

“I think the chances of finding anything in the Lake are remote… investigate potential sightings and evaluate their worth…”

The evidence presented by Mr Adams was a series of very sharp photographs; it is not a matter of finding anything, or potential sightings, or worth. Why not address what has already been obtained ?

By: Adam Davies

Adam Davies — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:11:33 +0000

As I have indicated, I think the chances of finding anything in the Lake are remote, not least because it is indeed very highly scrutinized. However, it is important to investigate potential sightings and evaluate their worth, especially as this place is right on my doorstep. Nobody will be “blundering around” though! I am not launching a major expedition. However, I do hope to use hydrophones and cameras etc. It’s early days, yet, so we will see.

By: wuffing

wuffing — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:35:55 +0000

I am on it my friends! Just spent the last four hours putting together an experienced crew. I want dive masters on my team… I am very interested in doing a short recce…

So the mystery is as good as solved

Just a quick question for Adam Davies and his dive masters: what are frogmen hoping to achieve by blundering around in the low visibility waters of what Dr Stephen Maberly from CEH describes as the best studied lake in the world ?

By: Adam Davies

Adam Davies — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:50:08 +0000

I am on it my friends! Just spent the last four hours putting together an experienced crew. I want dive masters on my team, and I have secured them. I hope to check it out within the next few months. I have some equipment testing scheduled in for tomorrow afternoon. If that goes well, then I will be up there! Need to do the financials though, as I will need a boat. I am very interested in doing a short recce, especially given that the location of this Lake is only a few hours drive from me.

Not optimistic, but we will see. I was amazed by what I saw in Seljord, so I would love to see to an English beastie!

By: arewethereyeti

arewethereyeti — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 21:11:56 +0000

I tend to agree with Springheeledjack and others in that: a lake, plus a wake, does not automatically a lake monster make.

IMHO, if not shopped, a distant picture of a bird, dog, otter, fish, etc., swimming on/at the surface.

Next…

By: David-Australia

David-Australia — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:59:36 +0000

"lake windemere is in northern england, in the spectacularly unimaginatively named (but spectacularly beautiful) ‘lake district’." No lake monsters, but nice daily photos.

By: monsterhunter316

monsterhunter316 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:09:03 +0000

Inconclusive.

By: MBFH

MBFH — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:03:20 +0000

things-in-the-woods: never a truer word said. I was speaking to my Dad about these sightings – he now lives just North of the Lake District and has spent a lot of time there climbing and walking.

In the late 50′s when the Windscale (now Sellafield) nuclear power station was being built on the West Coast of the Lakes, there were similar sightings, but in a different lake – Wastwater. Wastwater has the clearest water of all the lakes so it was decided to take the cooling water for the power station from there. A number of divers supposedly reported seeing ‘monsters’ in the lake during the construction. I suppose, underwater, a 6ft plus eel would look like a monster.

By: things-in-the-woods

things-in-the-woods — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:25:01 +0000

joppa-
lake windemere is in northern england, in the spectacularly unimaginatively named (but spectacularly beautiful) ‘lake district’.