During the summer recess at the University of St. Andrews some of the engineering students visited Loch Ness and constructed a simulation of the monster. The body consisted of three huge tractor inner tubes suitably weighted to show half of the tubes sticking vertically out of the water.
The head of the monster was fabricated from a blow-up giraffe’s head, and the tail was constructed from the tail of a children’s crocodile toy.
The “whole monster” was dragged about 200 yards offshore and anchored via a heavy boulder. This was performed at night, and the next morning revealed a realistic monster looming ominously through the mist of the dawn over the Loch.
Photographs were taken and submitted to the local and National papers. The reaction was explosive: by the time newspaper journalists arrived on the scene, the “monster” had vanished in the mist.
