Posted on 02/17/2008 4:04:25 PM PST by Beowulf9
LEGENDARY Nessie hunter Robert Rines is giving up his search for the monster after 37 years.
The 85-year-old American will make one last trip in a bid to find the elusive beast.
After almost four decades of fruitless expeditions, he admitted: "Unfortunately, I'm running out of age."
World War II veteran Robert has devoted almost half his life to scouring Loch Ness.
He started in 1971. The following year, he watched a 25ft-long hump with the texture of elephant skin gliding through the water.
His original trip was to help another monster hunter with sonar equipment and quickly identified large moving targets.
He was smitten and returned the next year, which is when, he says: "I had the misfortune of seeing one of these things with my own eyes."
Since then, he has been obsessed with tracking down the creature with a staggering array of hi-tech equipment. It was this gear that took the famous "flipper" picture that year which created a stir around the world.
Despite having hundreds of sonar contacts over the years, the trail has since gone cold and Rines believes that Nessie may be dead, a victim of global warming.
He still wants to check almost 100 contacts on the floor of the loch, believing one may be the monster's remains.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyrecord.co.uk ...
Now we can say Global Warming did in Nessie, Big Foot, various UFOs, and anything else that cannot be located/viewed/identified in the 21st century......
Dick Cheney is deeply saddened that he is not getting any of the credit.
He also fishes, you know!
You are correct. Dynachrome has killed too many brain cells.
LOL
HEY GODZILLA BABY how you been honey
BTW you going blame for everything
quakes, storms, Economy and if Hillary say win this election LOLOLOLOL!
resistance is futile
I would say they need to be loched up.
Nessie died of indigestion, after eating Man-Bear-Pig.
Unbeknownst to most people, there is a secret underwater tunnel which connects Loch Ness with Lake Champlain on the New York-Vermont border.
...Where Alph the sacred river ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea...
I once saw a movie which raised the supposition that the Loch Ness Monster was also Jack the Ripper so I guess it’s as true as the original post claiming that global warming killed it.
Thanks. I don’t understand why they moved this but, and I hate to sound paranoid, but do they not want a lot of attention on this?
No (well, not much anyway) idea, but I'm glad I tacked it. Got to do thier 'reader survey' and enter their drawing. LOL
It looked like they changed the title, and added a bit more matterial to it.
Thanks for the ping!
ya beat me to it
>”Actually, this makes sense to me.
A mythical event has killed off a mythical monster.”<
When you put it that way, G.W. does make sense! ;^)
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