For what it’s worth, author Steve Alten was interviewed about this photo on Coast-to-Coast last night (yeah, I know they also had an earlier guest talking about how paranormal activity has increased the past 5 yrs due to increased solar activity).
Alten made a # of observations, two of which were: (1) He doesn’t know where the “65-foot” figure comes from — because the Loch has no islands of a given length as comparison.
(2) The evidence he has seen is that the loch is more likely home to a 30-to-50-foot eel.
And why did he not consider some large man made object as a possibility?
An eel! That actually makes good sense.
True story here...my dad was in the Navy during the Korean War on the USS Wisconson. Told me one day in the N. Atlantic men were calling everyone they could get onto the deck to see a “sea monster”. It was (according to my dad) dark, muddy brown in color...about 3 ft thick with a head “like a snake” and was probably close to 50 ft long as the men judged. Dad said about 100 men witnessed this and they ALL simply attributed it to some deep sea snake or eel. So neat you said that. Could be a great-grandaddy eel that was somehow able to grow to that huge proportion.
Oh! Forgot to add that he said this eel-type creature was riding the wave the bow of the boat made for a little while then “started to head off to the right and dove...we didn’t see it again.”
How does it reproduce? It's been around for an awfully long time.