A High-Tech Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster

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A High-Tech Hunt for the Loch Ness Monster
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The Boston inventor Bob Rines travels to Scotland to find the most famous—and most elusive—aquatic beast in the world.

Twenty-eight years later, Bob Rines is still looking for the monster. But he is no Ahab: he is not one of the men who have devoted their whole lives to the quest. Rines is a sportsman, a gentleman monster hunter. He is a longtime fisherman, and the Loch Ness monster is the biggest, the grandest, the most famous, and the most elusive fish in the world.

The underwater video camera to which the monitor is connected is set up to run continuously, but the powerful lights rigged up around it are supposed to snap on only when the sonar, attached to the same rig, detects something in the water. The flickering of the lights on the blank screen indicated that the sonar was being triggered by something when there was nothing to see. Figuring out why this was happening was Duane Marshall’s job. Marshall began to adjust some wires.

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