LOCH NESS MONSTER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29820, 12 May 1962, Page 19

LOCH NESS MONSTER

Three Groups To Search

(Special Crspdt. LONDON, May 10.

Three different expeditions will look for the Loch Ness Monster this year. Colonel H. G. Hasler, who in 1960 sailed his five-ton boat Jester across the Atlantic in the first single-handed race, is organising an expedition next month with more than 30 other people with the aim of “proving or disproving the existence of a large animal or family of animals in the loch.” The second expedition, which will take place in the same period, is being arranged by two undergraduates, Peter Baker and Mark Westwood, who have already taken part in an earliar search. They will co-operate closely with Hasler but the two expeditions will be quite separate. Later in the year, probably in September and October, David James, the Conservative member of Parliament for Brighton, is planning a third search, which is to be filmed. “We are all set to start a patrol in June and we aim to maintain it for two months,” Colonel Hasler told the “Scotsman” newspaper. “We intend to have at least 10 people on watch at any one time.”

He said the expedition would live in Qaravans which would be mobile along the loch shores. The Jester has been at Inverness since last autumn, when a reconnaissance for the expedition was carried out. She will be afloat throughout the two months with a crew of three.

There will be a photographic as well as a written record of the expedition.