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.
Someone needs to glue a monster mould to the top of that sub…
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.
Boaty McBoatface from 2016 … it feels like 10 lifetimes ago.
Yeah, a whole other era of the Internet.
here’s the images
Shouldn’t that be unloched?
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.
You damn fools. You better have tree fiddy ready for the rest of your lives.
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
Shouldn’t it be unwatered? :^)
My bad, I forgot we were still on Reddit where nothing is serious and everything is a joke.
Oh there will be grist for the mill, whether they “found” anything or not.
