Unmanned submarine accidentally revealed an underwater camera that is thought to have been created 55 years ago, hoping to shoot a photo of the elusive monster Loch Ness.
The UK National Oceanography Center tested the underground, which was declared Boaty Mcboatface in a viral online poll in 2016, when the camera’s mooring was tangled in its propeller, the center said on Monday.
“Although it was not a find we expected to do, but we are happy that this piece of the history of hunting of Nessie can be shared, and perhaps at least the mystery of who left it in Loch, it can be solved,” says Sam Smith, an engineer with the marine autonomous and robotics of the center.
Adrian Sheen, who has been exploring Loha in Scotland since the 70s of the last century, helped identify the camera as one of the six drop nearly 600 feet below the surface of Loch from Roy McAl, from the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau and the University of Chicago.
“It was a brilliant camera trap consisting of an institutional camera on the clock with a built -in flash cube, which allows you to take four pictures when a bait line was taken,” said a Shine message from the Loch Ness project. “It is remarkable that the home has kept the dry camera for the last 55 years, lying over 130 m (426 feet) deep in Loch Ness.”
One of the NOC engineers managed to develop images from the camera that show the dull depths of Loch, the center said. Since then, NOC has turned the camera and his movie in the center of Loch Ness in Drumnadrochit.
The will of the UK and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, stood on Helidek in front of the unmanned Boaty McboatFace submarine during the Naming of RRS Sir David Attenborough at the Camel Laird shipyard on Birkenhead 26
Ichaak, general manager of the center, thanked NOC for his contribution to the edition.
“More than 90 years have passed since Nessie’s first observation, there have been a lot of expeditions to find the elusive beast since,” she said. “We are the guardians of this unique history and, as well as invest in creating an unforgettable experience for visitors, we are committed to helping to continue the search and disclosure of the mysteries that are under the waters of the famous Loch.”
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The Autosub underwater vehicle is a $ 300 million British research ship, which is used to study the connection between Antarctic winds and rising marine temperatures.
The bright yellow robot on the ocean gained global fame in 2016 after voters predominantly chose their name in an online poll. But the British government rejected the idea, stating that it was not “suitable” for the big ship later named after the famous English naturalist David Attenborough.
The National Oceanography Center said it tests two Autosub vehicles, one of them used to map seafloor habitats and the other for long -distance autonomous operations that can dive nearly 20,000 feet below the ocean surface.
“The ocean covers 70% of the Earth’s surface, but there is still so much that we do not know about it, life in it, how they both interact with our atmosphere and how climate change will affect these relationships,” says Matthew Kingsland, of the Group of Marine Autonomous and Robotics of the Center. “With our robots, we also help to map and observe marine life to understand how our actions, such as offshore development of renewable energy, fishing and deep -water extracting habitats and ecosystems.”
Monster Monster’s first observation of 2025 reported
Although the camera did not capture images of Loch Ness’s monster and was not found final evidence of the existence of the monster, the last discovery came after the center announced that it had been reported a potential monitoring of Nessa for the first time in 2025.
Amy Todd, the Marketing Manager of the Center, told the USA Today this month that an alleged photo of a mythical creature was taken on the shore of Dorsland in Scotland on January 29. Todd said the center had reached out to experts, including Alan McNana from the Loch Ness survey, to verify the image.
In May, the center will conduct a huge demand for Nessie called “The Quest”, Todd said, and volunteers will monitor the surface of the lake at 13 different places for more than six hours. Seeers will also embark on the boat of the center and use a hydrophone to detect acoustic signals underwater, she said.
This article originally appeared in USA Today: Loch Ness Monster Camera accidentally discovered by Submarine