Loch Ness Monster - Tim Dinsdale

One man who became a devoted pursuer of the Loch Ness Monster began his search in the spring of 1960. Tim Dinsdale of Reading, England, arrived at the loch equipped with camping gear and a 16mm movie camera, prepared to spend all of six days watching for the creature.

On April 23, his last day of surveillance, he was staring out across the loch from an elevation of 300 feet when he saw a motionless object on the surface of the water. Estimating the range at about 1,300 yards, Dinsdale trained his binoculars on the object and saw a mahogany-colored shape with a dark blotch on its left side. It began to move. Dinsdale turned to his camera and started filming, following the shape as it zigzagged across the loch and submerged, resurfacing and submerging again over a distance of 500 yards.

The result was a grainy but exciting piece of film showing a living creature whose appearance matched many eyewitness descriptions of the creature in the lake.

At least one previously skeptical scientist was persuaded that there was indeed something unaccountable and worth searching for in the waters of Loch Ness. Dinsdale was understandably gratified by his success and conveyed something of what he had felt while filming when he later wrote:

". .. through the magic lens of my camera I had reached out across a thousand yards, and more, to grasp the Monster by the tail," (Tim Dinsdale, Loch Ness Monster , pp.78-104)

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