Time after time the search has been made, and time after time, they’ve all come again empty handed. This week nevertheless, a division of Kongsberg Maritime lastly situated the elusive Nessie. That is, the lengthy misplaced mannequin of ‘Nessie’, a prop used throughout filming of 1970’s “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes”.

The discovery was made throughout a survey of Loch Ness, led by Kongsberg Maritime Ltd and supported by The Loch Ness Project and Go toScotland.

Operation Groundtruth is the primary survey of its sort in Scotland, making use of Kongsberg Maritime Ltd’s recently-launched MUNIN AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle). The extremely correct underwater car options groundbreaking sonar and digital camera tools, which give the flexibility to map huge areas as much as a depth of 1,500m at extremely excessive decision.

As Loch Ness has a repute of being extremely tough to survey, the state-of-the-art MUNIN will undoubtedly reveal model new info concerning the Loch. Uncovering the 46 yr outdated Nessie mannequin was only the start…

 “Kongsberg Maritime Ltd began surveying Loch Ness with some of the world’s first multibeam sonar back in 1987,” commented Craig Wallace, senior subsea purposes engineer at Kongsberg Maritime. “Over the years, the company has returned many times, bringing the latest technology to uncover the Loch’s mysteries.”

Wallace added:

“We expect to uncover new information from the Loch during this survey, as MUNIN is the most advanced low logistics AUV on the market and is the first of the next generation AUVs from Kongsberg Maritime. Merging the cutting edge technology from the commercial sector whilst maintaining the robust reliability from the military market, the vehicle is providing insight to the Loch’s depths as never before imagined. Finding Nessie was, of course, an unexpected bonus!”