Drone hunt for Loch Ness Monster finds its film double


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 19 Apr 2016

Subsea engineer John Haig launches Munin, an intelligent marine robot, to explore Loch Ness in Scotland, Britain April 13, 2016. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne

LONDON: A high-tech marine drone scouring the depths of Scotland's Loch Ness for one of nature's most elusive beasts has found a "monster" – but not the one it was looking for. 

Rather than the fabled Loch Ness Monster itself, the probe has discovered a 30-foot (9 metre) replica used in the 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, which sank nearly 50 years ago after its buoyant humps were removed. 

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