Eight-year-old Benjamin Scanlon, from Ickenham, London, captured a sonar image while holidaying with his family last month.  Benjamin was on-board the ‘Nessie Hunter’ on August 26 when he spotted the figure deep in the water.  

He told the Scotsman: “Before we went to Loch Ness I didn’t believe in Nessie, I knew the Surgeon’s photo had been faked. But now I’ve seen how big the loch is and with the sonar picture, I think she is definitely real.”  

The boat was in water about 40 metres deep with the captain estimating the creature caught in the image was between three and four metres in length, sitting at a depth of about 20 metres.  The image shows the blue background of the loch with the heat image of a long, snake-like shape.

Benjamin continued: “It was very exciting seeing the image appear on the sonar.  

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DNA findings have also suggested that the Loch Ness monster might be a giant eel! A scientist who collected DNA from Scotland’s Loch Ness suggests the lake’s fabled monster might be a giant eel. Neil Gemmell from the University of Otago in New Zealand says the project found a surprisingly high amount of eel DNA in the water. He cautioned that it’s not clear whether that indicates a gigantic eel or just a lot of little ones.  But he said at a news conference in Scotland on Thursday that the idea of a giant eel is at least plausible.  The DNA project found no evidence to support the notion that the monster is a long-necked ancient reptile called a plesiosaur.