Creature diving in the Loch captured on video!

It has been an excellent time for monster spotting on Loch Ness recently due to calm, glass-like waters and longer hours of daylight. And there have been a number of sightings of surface shapes that have proved very interesting.

One extraordinary story was reported in the Daily Mail last week then followed by the world's press.

Something swimming from left to right on the loch in the direction of Urquhart Castle was captured on video by hospital clerical worker Eoin O'Faodhagin, from Donegal.

Eoin used his mobile phone on April 30th to record the ten-minute video while viewing the Loch Ness web cam. It appears to show something big diving up and down before disappearing.

Eoin said he believed it was Nessie. He was quoted as saying: “I believe in Nessie but not as a plesiosaur. But something that has evolved in Loch Ness over thousands of years.”

Apparently, he has been to Loch Ness four times as part of Highland holidays and, in July 1987, also had a momentary unexplained sighting. “But nothing like this - it was just incredible,” he said.

Longest recorded sighting

Eoin also said he has seen a couple of things over the years when watching the Loch Ness web cam but most have been explained as a boat or something else.

Normally videos of sightings are very short. According to our friend Gary Campbell of the Official Register of Sightings, this a feature-length film as far as Nessie footage is concerned.

The timing of this latest spotting is interesting as - reported by us last week - Professor Neil Gemmell and his scientific team are about to take water samples from the loch for examination of the DNA.

It will also soon be the 53rd anniversary of the famous sighting of June 15th, 1965, by Ian Cameron and others. Previously reported in this blog, it is reckoned to be the longest recorded sighting at over 50 minutes in length.

Maybe the next sighting will be captured by you? There has never been a better time to visit Loch Ness and, of course, join one of our cruises.

Plus, you could be one of the first to sail on the “Jacobite Maverick” that will soon become the latest addition to our fleet.