Has the Mystery of Nessie Been Solved?

The beast was created for the Billy Wilder-directed The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, starring Sir Robert Stephens and Sir Christopher Lee. It has been seen for the first time in images captured by an underwater robot.  More at the link.

The model was floated out to a place in the loch where only a few months earlier claims of sighting of Nessie had been made.

The model was built with a neck and two humps and taken alongside a pier for filming of portions of the film in 1969.

The director did not want the humps and asked that they be removed, despite warnings I suspect from the rest of the production that this would affect its buoyancy.

And the inevitable happened. The model sank.  Read more here