An underwater camera set up 55 years ago to try and photograph the Loch Ness Monster has been found by accident by a robot submarine.
The ocean-going yellow sub - called Boaty McBoatface - was being put through trials when its propeller snagged the mooring for the 1970s camera system.
It is believed it was lowered 180m (591ft) below the loch’s surface by the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau, a group set up in the 1960s to uncover the existence of Nessie in the waters.
No footage of Nessie has been found on the camera, but one of the submarine’s engineers was able to develop a few images of the loch’s murky waters.
Boaty McBoatface from 2016 … it feels like 10 lifetimes ago.
Yeah, a whole other era of the Internet.
back when there was still some fun and magic out there
First year of Trump but there was little to fear from the bumbling idjit.
Now tho’ … :(
June 16th, 2015 was when Trump the candidate started in earnest. We’ve been dealing with his shit off and on for almost 10 years now.
When was the off? Motherfucker has been daily news, even during biden’s term. Fucking news can’t stand a day with out him. He was right about at least one thing: he’s good for ratings.
I’m so fucking tired
After he lost, he disappeared from the news cycle for quite a while. It was wonderful.
You’re right. I forgot about that. It was glorious.
No footage of Nessie will ever be found or captured, because in 1991 the dude who started the damn rumor with that one famous photo admitted that it was a hoax. Why people still continue to search for the monster baffles me.
To be fair, this camera was put in the water in the 1970s…
Same reason people think the earth is flat, the moon landing was a hoax, and that vaccines cause autism?
A lack of critical thinking skills, and general stupidity.
A lack of critical thinking skills, and general stupidity.
And trolling. Don’t forget trolling.
Next you’re gonna tell me Santa is fake! Don’t take my fun!
1991? I took a fake photo of Nessie in 1984, and I’m certain I wasn’t the first.
The picture he took was from the 60’s; he just confessed it was bullshit in 91.
No footage of Nessie will ever be found … because in 1991 the dude … admitted that it was a hoax.
Yeah, but Nessie has been folklore for longer than such an animal could possibly have lived. I have great great great great grandparents from the area, and it was older than them. People have been faking photographs since the photograph was invented. Before that people painted pictures or did charcoal sketches.
My point was that the guy didn’t start anything; he just continued the tradition.
Bitching out on naming the ship Boaty McBoatface is the real reason Brexit happened.
You can’t call a ship a boat. Shippy McShipface would’ve been a different topic. Or maybe Chipper McShipface?
There are humans that are named after other animals (Bear Grylls, Tony Hawk, Michael J Fox). We absolutely could have called it Boaty McBoatface.
here’s the images
I was hoping for something more like this:
Personally I’m betting on Nessie having camouflage skills like an octopus, and instead of squirting ink they can create the equivalent of an underwater dust cloud. That would absolutely explain these photos.
Edit to add: /jk since apparently that wasn’t obvious 🙄
And it knew to react to an unmoving camera how? It just perfectly puts out its camouflage cloud every time it passes a camera? You realize that makes zero sense, right?
Um, you’re taking my comment way too seriously. I replied to a cartoon picture. I literally just made up a silly explanation that would fit the photos. Please take a deep breath and go touch some grass.
Oh shut the fuck up. Telling someone to touch grass after spouting your delusion? People like you need to be told to shut up more. We shouldn’t entertain your nonsense. Trying to call it a joke after the fact is the only laughable part.
Wow. You have issues mate.
Nah, I’m just done with handling ignorance with kid gloves. It’s how we got to the state of the US today.
You clearly put forth your unsubstantiated theory that Nessie has active camouflage and it totally explains the murky photos. You took the LACK of evidence and used that as proof of something even more extreme and requiring of even more proof. When asked a very simple question like “well then how would it work with a stationary camera?” suddenly it’s “well I was just playing make believe, you need to touch grass!”
Nah, fuck your goal post moving ass.
“Aliens”
Lol its a hoax anyway…
Yeah, but when it’s clearly a hoax and you have someone going “yeah, but still, what if it’s really X?” it makes it really clear how badly our education and mental health systems failed.
Well so long as you’re not ultra into it its fun and w/e. To me its same energy as planning for winning lotto. Yeah it ain’t happen but it will be cool. Its purely distraction in something possibly wonderful. Sometimes I think if the people that go too far just really dont want to come back.
No, it’s delusional. Writing fictional stories is fine. Trying to warp reality and evidence to fit your fantasy is delusion. “This would be cool…” is not the same as being told why you’re scientifically wrong and then going “but what if it were true anyways because I want to believe?”
It’s the same shit with Bigfoot. As more and more “evidence” is debunked and the case becomes more obviously just a mistaken identification at best you get these whack jobs talking about how Bigfoot is a dimension jumping shape shifter. Not because they have any actual evidence, but because “this is the only way to explain why we got zero pictures despite decades of trying”.
Imagination is fine. Delusion is not.
i thought you were playing along with the joke but you really were going “you’re dumb actually and stupid” like you believed it
man that game is cool
True hero.
Omg, a camera with a flash cube - so it would have been able to take 4 flash pictures.
I had that exact same camera when I was a kid. My favourite part was putting in new flash cubes. Dude when the Kodak Disc came out we were wetting our pants, that thing had INFINITE FLASH
It’s the camera my mom used, too. It was super popular, it seems like every family had one.
Taking pictures was such a different experience in those days, knowing you only had as many pictures as was on the roll (like 20 I think it’s what we bought), and you couldn’t see how they came out until you had them developed.
Helps when you’re a kid, and not the one paying $2/picture for the flash.
Source. Take the cost based on a 12-pack of Magicubes, divide in 4 because there’s 4 shots per cube, and adjust for inflation.
Someone needs to glue a monster mould to the top of that sub…
Shouldn’t that be unloched?
i read that at first as “camera to to set up the loch ness monster” and i thought they were trying to frame the loch ness monster of a crime she didn’t commit
They were trying to catch her in a loving embrace with her cousin, the Ogopogo.
That was always a very long distance relationship.
I’ve got pictures of both of them though :D
Kind of puts a pin in Nessie then, if we can find a small camera lost 55 years ago but not a giant animal.
Dunno about found. I think that requires intent. This is a happy little accident
You damn fools. You better have tree fiddy ready for the rest of your lives.
Shouldn’t it be unwatered? :^)
Isn’t it best practice to develop film as soon as possible after taking a picture. Surely the undeveloped picture would have degraded after 55 years?
Did you see the pictures in the article?
You’re right, but how bad depends on a lot of factors.
Technically yes, but in favourable condition the film can persist for pretty long time. People have developed films that had been sitting in a camera/cartridge for literally a century and gotten decent results.
So show us the pictures then! Why are you hiding them?! Outrage!
The photos are in the article!
I’m here to do two things: not read articles, and make ignorant comments based on not reading articles
and I’m almost out of articles to not read
You can always write your own contributions!
And at least 7 people upvoted them
There are two maybe four photos in the article, and I genuinely don’t see a source for the rest of them.
What makes you think there are more? The cameras were only ever rigged to take four photographs max
You’re joking right?
No joke! Lots of details in the article, it’s worth a look. The cameras were also rigged via tripwire to hopefully only activate when Nessie physically disturbed them!
They used a flash that was single-use. When the flash triggered, it burned out and the mechanism rotated. A cube has 4 sides.
So the numbering on the film is irrelevant then?
Likely, yes.
Kids…
If you know, you know.
Oh there will be grist for the mill, whether they “found” anything or not.
My bad, I forgot we were still on Reddit where nothing is serious and everything is a joke.
