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Nessie or giant eels? (A2-B1)

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Nessie or giant eels?

Niveau A2-B1 (intermédiaire)

Photo de couverture : Loch-Ness-Urquhart-© CC BY-SA 2.0 

Up to three hundred people were at Loch Ness at the end of August 2023. Was it a party? No, it was the biggest hunt for the Loch Ness monster since 1972. The people were volunteers looking for natural or strange movement on the lake.  

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In April 1933, a hotel manageress Aldie Mackay, said she saw a whale-like creature in the lake. That was the beginning of many strange events. Today, the mystery of Nessie is the inspiration for books, TV shows and films. It is also a big tourist attraction!

The Loch Ness Centre organised the hunt with a volunteer research team called Loch Ness Exploration. The manager for the Loch Ness Centre, Paul Nixon, said, “There are a hundred volunteers lining the banks of Loch Ness today, all on a quest to find some answers to what is the Loch Ness Monster.”

The volunteers were looking for movement on the water surface. But the weather conditions were bad. Caroline McNamara, an American volunteer, said, “The waves were really choppy. The rain was really coming down and there were a lot of boats on the water.” What did they find? Nothing!

The hunt used drones, infrared cameras, hydrophones and sonar equipment. But Loch Ness covers 36 kilometres and is more than 200 metres deep. It also has more than 7,452 million cubic metres of water. So, exploration is difficult.

This wasn’t the first hunt for the Loch Ness monster. The Loch Ness Investigation Bureau was set up in the 1960s. It closed in 1977 because it didn’t find evidence of a monster. Then, in 1987, Operation Deepscan scanned the whole lake with sonar equipment. They detected something mysterious three times, but they decided it was debris. In 2019, scientists said the Loch Ness monster might be a giant eel. So, researchers from New Zealand took DNA from water samples to check for large animals in the lake. But there was no evidence of a prehistoric marine reptile or large fish.

What do you think? Is there a monster in the Loch Ness?

a eel: une anguille

a hunt: une chasse

a volunteer: un bénévole

whale-like: comme une baleine

to line: se mettre en position

a bank: (ici) une rive

choppy: agité

to come down (rain): de tomber des trombes d’eau

to set up: (ici) organiser

an evidence: une preuve

the whole: en entier

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