The Loch Ness monster just made another public outing. Nessie was recorded when a tourist from Portsmouth suddenly spotted something big on the tourist cruise boat's sonar. The sighting occurred on Monday, April 4, and was reported as the second sighting of the Loch Ness monster in 2022.
The sighting came over a week from the first time Nessie made an appearance this year. The first sighting happened when a veteran Nessie hunter captured two objects moving parallel to each other via webcam. The said sighting was acknowledged and recorded in the Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register, Science Times reported.
Loch Ness Monster Second Sighting in 2022: Tourist Detects Nessie 400ft Below Surface Via Sonar
Loch Ness Monster Spotted for the Second Time in 2022
Tom Ingram, 36, was on a tourist cruise boat on Loch Ness when he saw something big on the sonar lurking more than 400 feet below the surface. It was an unexpected find as the trip was only meant to be a time for having fun with his friends until he realized that it was real, Daily Record reported.
Ingram, an IT Infrastructure Engineer at South Western Railway, initially assumed that it was just part of the cruise for tourists. But upon realizing it was not fake, he reported the sighting and it was accepted as the second time Nessie was detected in 2022. It is currently recorded on the Official Loch Ness Monster Register.
Based on the screengrab from the sonar that Ingram provided, the moving object was about 30 feet (9 meters) long and around 410 feet (125 meters) below the surface.
"We decided to take one of the regular cruises from Fort Augustus to get some scenic photos of the loch whilst we are here. At around the halfway point, just off Invermoriston, we were alerted to a strange shape forming on the sonar," the news outlet quoted Ingram.
He added that he classified himself as an open-minded person about the existence of Nessie. But given the sonar readings, he feels that it certainly adds evidence to the myth of the mysterious monster in the loch.
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Recent Find Happened in the Same Place Where a Sonar Detection Was Reported Two Years Ago
Ingram's encounter with Nessie via the sonar was incredibly in the same place as the famous sonar contact about two years ago that made headlines. According to the Daily Mirror, shocking images of a large creature in the depths of Loch Ness were allegedly captured in 2020 via sonar off Invermoriston.
The sonar detection was noticed by skipper Ronald Mackenzie who was aboard his tourist boat at that time. It was said to have measured 32 feet and was about 500 feet below the surface. At that time, it was considered the "most compelling" evidence of the existence of the Loch Ness Monster.
Craig Wallace, a leading sonar expert, described the two sonar images as "very curious," while Nessie expert Steve Feltham believes that Ingram's sonar is 100% genuine. Feltham, who holds the world record for the longest vigil of looking for the Loch Ness monster for three decades, said that the sonar images are the best evidence of a creature beneath the loch that no one has ever seen.
On the other hand, he also said that there must be some large creature who has moved into that territory, which could be a Wels catfish. Nonetheless, the recent sonar sighting adds to the growing evidence of Nessie's existence and marks another step towards finding it.
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