'I'm Britain's top Loch Ness Monster hunter - latest event has left me terrified'

Alan McKenna said helium was frozen with fearfulness erstwhile thing loomed retired of the water

The UK's "top Nessie hunter" was near terrified aft a adjacent encounter. Alan McKenna, who runs Loch Ness Exploration, an autarkic and voluntary probe radical successful Scotland, says helium was frozen with fearfulness erstwhile thing loomed retired of the h2o aft being illuminated by his torchlight.

A video of the incidental was captured connected camera and shows the infinitesimal Alan realised he’d stumbled crossed thing but a thin, harmless h2o weed, arsenic reported by Need to Know. Despite regularly venturing retired onto the loch successful hunt of Nessie, the burly Scot admitted helium really has a fearfulness of deep, acheronian water.

Alan was retired astatine Urquhart Bay with colleagues Jared Christie and Dave Hastings connected Saturday evening. In the footage, a panicked Alan tin beryllium heard saying: "Oh what a fright, Jared, what a fright." While Jared replied: "It's conscionable a plant."

Afterwards, helium admitted: "It was a hilarious and somewhat embarrassing infinitesimal wherever an underwater weed caught america off-guard. There was ne'er a dull infinitesimal implicit the weekend. We were conducting hydrophone recordings and exploring the wildlife astir the shoreline astatine nighttime with infrared and nighttime vision.

"I person a genuine fearfulness of heavy acheronian h2o - it's called Thalassophobia. Worst fearfulness to person successful this enactment of work. It was brainsick dark. I was already tense connected the pier and successful this comic infinitesimal my imaginativeness got the amended of me."

Back successful August, Alan was portion of a squad that utilized underwater detectors to prime up a regular heartbeat heavy successful Loch Ness. The rhythmic pulsing was picked up connected a hydrophone that was deployed 100-feet beneath the surface. And portion the root of the dependable was unclear, it created a monster buzz.