A SCIENCE enthusiast from Yorkshire is making waves in Scotland after capturing video footage of what he believes could be the Loch Ness Monster.
Gordon Holmes, from Shipley, travelled to the Scottish Highlands to use new hydrophone equipment in an attempt to eavesdrop on Nessie in the water.
But after spending a day trying to get a sound recording of the monster, the 55-year-old believes h
e has gone one step further by capturing the creature on camera.
He said: "I was sat in a lay-by about 70ft above the loch – it was 10pm but the sun was still shining on the mountains on the other side.
"I was minutes from going home and I had only gone up there to relax and enjoy the view when I saw something moving on the surface of the water so I dashed to get the camera.
"It wasn't a wave because it was going in the opposite direction to the waves that I could see and the top half of it seemed to be black.
"My camcorder was on a black and white setting and it took me a while to find it again in the water, but I've got two-and-half-minutes of footage which I have shown to experts and they think it is definitely a living creature."
Mr Holmes, who works as a technician at Bradford University, has visited Scotland six times in the past six years to investigate the Loch Ness Monster.
He said: "I have always been interested in science, astronomy and the unknown.
"I have an open mind about the monster. I know they're have been around 1,600 sightings over the years and people claim to have seen something which they can't describe because they have never seen anything like it before."
Mr Holmes arranged for the footage to be played on a TV at a shop in Inverness and he has also shown it to biologist Adrian Shine and Dick Raynor, of the Loch Ness Exhibition Centre.
He said: "I originally thought it looked about 4 ft to 6ft long but I think it may have been larger than that, one onlooker in the shop said he thought he could see a fin.
"At its closest point it was about 100 yards away from me. It seemed to be travelling faster than a human could walk."
Mr Holmes is now planning to send footage from his camcorder to Mr Shine and Mr Raynor to allow them to study it further.
He had planned to return home to Yorkshire this week, but might extend his stay because of the media attention his video footage has received in Scotland.
