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...surface, the idea seemed, well, monstrous. But the deeper the New York Times looked into it, the more irresistible the venture became: the Times should go after the Loch Ness Monster...
Still, current readers of the Times were startled two weeks ago to find on the front page a report that the Academy of Applied Science/New York Times Loch Ness Expedition was ready to. depart for Drumnadrochit, Scotland, which would be headquarters for "the most thorough and technologically sophisticated" hunt ever conducted for whatever it is that lurks in the loch...
Seven days later the story was Page One again. In prose evocative of earlier eras, Times Science Writer John Noble Wilford declared: "The search for the Loch Ness Monster has begun." Already 8,000 color photographs had been taken in the "murky waters," an "allnight vigil" had been mounted, and Expedition Leader Robert H. Rines had announced, "We have maximized our chances for success...
What possessed the Times? According to Assistant Managing Editor Peter Millones, the paper had been looking for a chance to sponsor "an adventure done in good taste." The Loch Ness project was suggested in April, and once the paper was convinced that "a serious scientific expedition" could result, it agreed on a collaboration with Rines, a Boston patent attorney by profession...
There is no more assiduous American tracer of missing monsters than Rines, whose 1975 photographs purporting to show a huge underwater creature in Loch Ness bolstered the convictions of both scoffers and believers (TIME, Jan. 12). The credentials of Rines' academy have been questioned by some-it has no actual office and no university affiliation-but several esteemed scientists are on the team Rines has assembled at Drumnadrochit...