ah Scotland the majestic Highlands the beautiful land of the thistle a place of
ancient knowledge and a heartfelt history of Bobby burns William Wallace
Robert the Bruce the Pictish Kingdom Hadrian's Wall and a
people who refused to budge even in the face of the Roman Empire Scotland is an
awesome place and it serves only to be complimented by its most intriguing
paranormal mystery the Loch Ness monster Nessie a tall tale of folklore that has
captivated the hearts and minds of an entire planet for hundreds of years but
since we're in the midst of draining oceans Bermuda triangles and Mariana
trenches let's see what we can do with Loch Ness
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listen Molly flow voice Jack Finch as today weaker she asked the question what
if we drained Loch Ness Robert Hooke
portly curious amongst you that clip was from the aptly named 1996 movie Loch
Ness starring the one and only Ted Danson as an anthropologist that
magically and mysteriously stumbles upon the underside of Loch Ness to find a
long-lost cavern that may or may not be home of the Loch Ness monster
hey I'm not in the business for spawning a 90s classic so watch it yourself
before we jump into this video that we should probably paint a picture of the
beautiful landscape of Loch Ness itself as well as the rich and ancient history
that surrounds it in order to give ourselves a better idea as to just what
may be lurking beneath its depths and put it this way Nessie aside there may
be some pretty incredible things at the bottom of its murky waters and yeah
don't worry there won't be any tree fiddy jokes throughout this particular
lbq because bait and switch aside Loch Ness is serious enough business by far
Loch Ness is the second largest Scottish Loch by a surface area of 22 square
miles coming in just behind Loch Lomond situated across the Highland boundary
fault however thanks to his absolutely massive depths Loch Ness is by far the
largest body of water by volume in the entire British Isles its deepest point
is 230 metres which also makes it the second deepest loch in Scotland just
behind Loch Morar you know what they say right
first the worst second the best yeah something like that even more
amazingly Loch Ness contains more fresh water than all of the lakes in England
Wales and Scotland combined that's deep right
super super deep and the main reason attributed by believers of the Loch Ness
monster as the white good old Nessie hasn't yet reared its mysterious head
but let's say in this hunt let's go san eye of some of those cryptic believers
that have since dedicated their lives to roaming the Loch in pursuit of the Great
Beast pulled their resources together and decided to drain the whole Loch of
its water to find out once and for all where Nessie is which would spout all
manners of ecological catastrophes and be all kinds of really bad bad things
have ever happened but we'll get to that after the pumps have finished draining
whilst we're waiting for that to happen there let's see where this whole Loch
Ness monster myth came from and whether in fact there's actually anything to it
you may be slightly astonished that the myth of Nessie actually dates back all
the way to the Year 565 AD in fact the earliest report of a monster in the
vicinity of Loch Ness appears in the 6th century document the life of st. Columba
written by Saint a dominant detailing the life of the Irish monk st. Columba
who at the time was staying in the land of the Picts with his travelling
companions when he witnessed a group of local residents burying a man by the
river Ness and nearby s tree that flows from the northern end of the Loch the
group explained to st. Columba that the man had been swimming in the river
where he was attacked by a ferocious water Beast which mauled him and dragged
him deep underwater allegedly the group tried to rescue him by boat but by the
time they'd reached the Loch he was dead as the legend goes the group were then
later attacked by the same beast but according to a dominant Saint Columba
had made the sign of the Cross and declared go no further go back at once
and with that the creature was flung back into the murky depths of Loch Ness
and fled now obviously there may be a few creative liberties taken with this
particular tale as it seems the Loch Ness monster may also be a demon but hey
what's the worst that could happen well obviously the worst that could have
happened in this case was the creation of a cryptozoological enigma that has
driven people insane for nearly 1,500 years trying to crack the mystery of
Nessie which in this hypothetical situation has driven people to the point
where they're draining the damp Loch Ness so how would they
thankfully for those the good people of the Internet have already done the math
to varying degrees of accuracy so shout out to Dennis Oakley and Thomas
Cartwright for the number crunching done the volume of water in Loch Ness is 7.5
kilometres cubed in the lake it south with a surrounding catchment area of
around 1,500 kilometers squared the most efficient process would be to dam both
ends of the Loch the parts that seep out to the further river Ness and Glenmore
and then start pumping and this is where the real commitment of the cause comes
into question and what kind of budget we'd have to drain Loch Ness with the
world's largest pump which costs around 500 million US dollars can put 150
thousand gallons per second and at that phenomenal rate it would take just 180
days to drain Loch Ness completely which you know is still half a year and also
hasn't taken to account the massive amounts of peat and silt in the lake
which would more than likely destroy the pump pretty quickly and I'm pretty sure
it costs a pretty penny to fix a 500 million dollar pump but nevertheless on
the flip side if you're pretty stuff for cash you can forget all about the 500
million dollar pump and instead go for the cheaper option if you take the
largest portable drainage pump on the market which works around 10,000 meters
cubed per hour it would take around 83.3 years to drain Loch Ness entirely but as
they say many hands make light work so if you grab yourself around 20 of those
pumps and position them around Loch Ness it takes just over 4 years to get the
job done great stuff and where's all that wart gonna go well I don't worry
about that that's someone else's problem isn't it we've got a Nessie to find I
mean with all that water gone you'd have a cavernous area to explore that spans
22 square miles and even if Nessie was alive and kicking she'd be pretty
perturbed at the fact that you just destroyed her home to find her what
you'd likely find dozens and dozens have lost boats that had been submerged over
the years you'd also find the Loch Ness monster prop from the 1969 Sherlock
Holmes film starring Sir Robert Stephens and Sir Christopher Lee which is pretty
awesome and you'd also definitely find the
wooden submarine toy that made it the surgeons photograph of 1934 that many
claim to be Nessie but was later debunked as a hoax also bodies of water
have a pretty historical habit of hiding ancient artifacts and relics and with
the vast horde of Pictish and Celtic tribes that populated the highlands of
Scott then archaeologists and treasure hunters
alike would flock the lochness in pursuit of potential riches untold but
we didn't find anything what if we just drain Loch Ness destroying the habitats
of countless flora and fauna native to the Scottish Highlands and just walked
away would it be worth it just to find out if Nessie really did
exist I'm not so sure what would it take for us to realize we've just gone too
far what would be the cost well about tree filling well we have elaborate
answers to the question what if we drain Loch Ness what do you guys think do you
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