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27th August 2023
05:04pm BST

"We are looking for breaks in the surface and asking volunteers to record all manner of natural behaviour on the loch. "Not every ripple or wave is a beastie. Some of those can be explained, but there are handful that cannot."[caption id="attachment_780834" align="alignnone" width="1024"]
Nessie has become an icon of Scotland with large numbers of tourists visiting Loch Ness every year (Getty Images)[/caption]
"When we were testing the equipment, we did hear four distinctive noises that we didn't know where it was coming from. "We didn't know the origin of it was, which is quite exciting."People from all over the world came to lend their services and try and spot the legendary creature over the weekend. Volunteers from Spain, France, Germany, Finland and the USA all travelled to uncover the truth. Information from the hunt is currently being collated and there are hopes more evidence is churned up from the large-scale search. Numerous searches of this size have been completed before by various groups in the past, with some famous examples being the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau (LNIB) search in 1972, Operation Deepscan in 1987 and a BBC-sponsored search in 2003. Many theories about what the creature might actually be have been floated to explain away the mystery, including eels, boat wakes, an elephant (really) and of course, a plain old hoax.
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