QUOTE(Frosty @ Nov 18 2004, 06:12 PM)
QUOTE(mr_halo @ Nov 18 2004, 04:21 PM)
QUOTE(JennRose @ Nov 18 2004, 06:02 PM)
Regarding the tunnels opening into the ocean...has that been proven? I know there was some speculation about it, but I haven't heard the final word.
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well i remember hearing about these tunnels, but i'm yet to find any information that backs these claims up, can anyone help?

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If it opened to the ocean, wouldn't that make it a salt water lake? Is salt water in Lock Ness? Before you start making claims, trying backing up what you're saying and not go off speculation. You know, I once heard Elvis was seen at a truck stop 12 miles from my cousin's house in Athens, Al, dunt make it true.
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This is from a site:
"Core samples have been taken which have reached the glacial clays.
During the last advance of ice Loch Ness may not have been a solid block, but would certainly have contained a substantial glacier.
For a long time it was thought that seawater must have entered the loch after the last ice age and that was how Nessie got in. Unfortunately this convenient theory (one I used to champion) has been quashed by the fact that there are no marine diatoms in the loch's sediments so there was never a saltwater incursion after the ice age. Because the only way into the loch for any aquatic creature would have been from the sea after the last ice age via the River Ness, it is now known that the monster, if there is one, could not be an invertebrate or amphibian because neither of those could make the sudden transition from salt to fresh water.
If the monster were a mammal the intensive surface surveillance would have solved the mystery in the sixties because mammals breath air and must surface regularly. The low ambient temperature of Loch Ness rules out cold-blooded reptiles as the identity of the monster. Warm-blooded reptiles, if they existed at all, would have needed to surface as regularly as mammals and the identity would have been solved long ago. What does that leave? Either fish or paranormal occurrences!" Source!QUOTE
Disprove it? The whole point of Loch Ness was a photographer who made a horrible fake photo of a supposed "monster" in Loch Ness that any retard with two functioning eyes could see was a fake, and he did it all for marginal gain and since then sleazy entrepeneurs have followed the same path by feeding of the weak minds of tourist and people abroad. Is there any way to prove that a small pact of sea-going creature could survive for so many years in such a small environment? Same goes for bigfoot and yeti. There have been numerous sonar test to find this monster and the lake has been combed as well to find it. What sickens me is the people out to prove it exist write off their investigations which prove their ignorance so easily by saying, "Well, we don't know that it's not there but it could be." Yes, well, if that is true, maybe Jurassic Park exist because no one can disprove it or prove it.
That could be very likely. Have a look at the
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Just an atricle with some information:
"There have been many sightings of the Loch Ness monster over the years, but so far nobody has been able to prove that there really is a huge sea monster in the deep, murky lake.
Some people believe that Nessie could be a type of Plesiosaur. These were large, meat-eating sea reptiles that lived many millions of years ago and that scientists believe are extinct.
Others believe that if there even is a creature in the lake, it can't be a Plesiosaur (or even a close cousin) and must be an eel or maybe a turtle.
So, when Mr McSorley's fossil turned out to be a Plesiosaur bone from about 150 million years ago, it was very exciting. Could this be proof that Loch Ness was home to families of Plesiosaurs millions of years ago?
Sadly, it seems not. Dr Lyall Anderson, a curator from the National Museum in Edinburgh examined the fossil. He doesn't think it is originally from Loch Ness. Speaking to Show.me.uk he said:
"I believe Mr McSorley found the fossil there in good faith, but I know it came from somewhere else."
The fossil has many tiny holes in it caused by little sea sponges, salt water and limestone on the seashore. This tells us it has spent a very long time in salt water. How it got to the fresh water of Loch Ness is a mystery. Source!"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Info on Loch Ness:
Loch Ness (from Gaelic Loch Nis) is a large, deep freshwater lake (known in Scotland it runs some 100 kilometres in an North-east to South-west direction. Only one third of the entire length is man-made, the rest being formed by Loch Dochfour, Loch Ness, Loch Oich, and Loch Lochy. These lochs are part of the Great Glen, a geological fault in the Earth's crust. There are 29 locks, four aqueducts and 10 bridges in the course of the canal.