Veteran Loch Ness Monster Hunter Gives Up

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 02-14-2008, 04:54 AM

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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...

So this guy spent half his life trying ti find unicorns and failed...no surprise...

What IS surprsing is this...

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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.

How can someone live outside Bellevue walls all this time and get away with it?...

Spencer Collins · #2 (**permalink**) 02-14-2008, 05:27 AM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Veteran Loch Ness Monster Hunter Gives Up

So this guy spent half his life trying ti find unicorns and failed...no surprise...

What IS surprsing is this...

How can someone live outside Bellevue walls all this time and get away with it?...

Nessie a victim of global warming..

That's a "convenient" piece of crap...

saltwn · #3 (**permalink**) 02-14-2008, 07:32 AM

I believe there is a Loc Ness Monster. Or was.
I believe in Big Foot.
Prove to me they don't exist!
Maybe they're explainable. Undiscovered fauna?
Maybe the Loc Nessy is a big fish that traveled through underground caves to get to the Loc and doesn't live there year round (as some have theorized).
Maybe the Sasquatch spelling? is your great uncle Buck from Arkansas who took his old lady fishing one week end and they liked it so much they stayed and raised a passel of youngins'.

Just don't rain on my parade O.K.?

Idealogically Promiscuous · #4 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

Maybe the Loc Nessy is a big fish that traveled through underground caves to get to the Loc and doesn't live there year round (as some have theorized).

That's next to impossible. The bed of Loch Ness was ground out by glacial ice and it is composed of granite. Caves aren't really formed in granite; they require softer stones like limestone.

I would like to believe in Nessie, but I don't think it's possible. First of all, it would take a sizable population just to maintain breeding needs. And then, the amount of fish it would take to feed that many Nessies would be enormous or they would have to be bigger fish; more than can be sustained within Loch Ness's eco-system. Also, there have been no remains found ever. It's just impossible.

cnredd · #5 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Idealogically Promiscuous

That's next to impossible. The bed of Loch Ness was ground out by glacial ice and it is composed of granite. Caves aren't really formed in granite; they require softer stones like limestone.

I would like to believe in Nessie, but I don't think it's possible. First of all, it would take a sizable population just to maintain breeding needs. And then, the amount of fish it would take to feed that many Nessies would be enormous or they would have to be bigger fish; more than can be sustained within Loch Ness's eco-system. Also, there have been no remains found ever. It's just impossible.

It's one of those things where people believe because they WANT to believe...

saltwn · #6 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 08:50 PM

Awe, Shewt! Next Y'all'll be a sayin' there ain't no tooth feerry!

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