S04E26 - A Natural History of Sea Serpents with Adrian Shine

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We're delighted to get to talk with Adrian Shine, who has worked for decades to raise awareness about Loch Ness and investigated the legendary creature said to inhabit the dark waters of that deep Scottish lake. He's written a new book about Sea Monsters and their connection to the Loch Ness Mystery which releases April 1st, 2025.

A Natural History of Sea Monsters (affiliate link)

The Loch Ness Centre

In the intro you hear a clip of IN SEARCH OF from S01E20 - which features a young Adrian. Check out In Research Of's coverage with guest Daniel Loxton here.

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0:00.0	Monster House Presents
0:09.0	Adrian Shine is another veteran of the hunt, but he has chosen to track his quarry at
0:15.8	Loch Morar just above Loch Ness. Monsters have been seen here too,
0:21.6	and the relative clarity of the water in Morar
0:23.6	may give shine an advantage.
0:26.6	We are laying out this year cameras,
0:30.6	television cameras beneath the surface
0:32.6	in order to carry out a constant surveillance
0:35.6	over some three months.
0:38.3	We can lay the cameras down to 60 feet beneath the water
0:41.3	and hope to get a silhouette of creature passing over the top.
0:45.3	We can get ranges underwater of nearly 100 feet.
0:48.3	We have some conventional cameras as well,
0:51.3	conventional 35mm cameras,
0:53.3	but the video technique, in my opinion, is better because we have an immediate record.
1:00.0	We don't have to process film and of course we get a movie.
1:04.0	It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.
1:09.0	A giant hairy creature,
1:12.8	Part 8, Part Matt.
1:15.2	In Larkness,
1:16.5	a 24-mile-long bottomless lake
1:18.6	in the highlands of Scotland.
	...

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