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"the continued search for the loch ness monster"
by tess o'shaughnessy
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recently, the remains of a viking ship wreck has been discovered underneath the dark waters of scotland's loch ness. historians, scientists, and academics are elated over the find, which may change how viking and scottish history is viewed. we at envasion are excited because of this discovery too, but for completely different reasons.
since 565 a.d., hundreds of sightings have been recorded of a monster living in or around the loch ness. some claim that it is all a hoax or a figment of overly-active imaginations. others are convinced that there is a family of plesiosaurs preserved from the age of dinasours living in modern-day scotland.
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if it does exist, no one knows exactly what the monster is, how many of them are in the loch, or how they came to be there. these questions have caught the interest of a wide range of people from tiny children to acclaimed researchers.
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as science progresses, so does the high-tech search for the loch ness monster. the loch has been mapped by sonar and radar and every underwater technique known to man. because none of these techniques has revealed evidence of the loch's habitation by nessie, sceptics are quick to point out that if nessie exists, one of the scientific techniques would have discovered her by now.
and yet, for hundreds of years a gigantic ship has been laying at the bottom of the loch undiscovered and undisturbed by time or scientists until just a few weeks ago.
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could not an intelligent creature that moves freely in a loch over twenty miles long evade boats and their sonar if it so desired? with hundreds of caves and tunnels exisiting off of the main body and rivers flowing freely into and out of the loch, there are numerous possible places to hide. if modern science took this long to discover an enourmous stationary vessel, is it any wonder that they also can neither support nor disprove the existance of a monster?
if explorers can discover a lost viking ship in the giant loch ness, what else remains hidden in this loch in scotland, or in the 70% of the world that is covered in water?
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