He saw a newspaper cutting telling of another American, Roy Mackal's work at Loch Ness, and offered the services of the mini-sub. Mackal was hooked on the minisub idea, and Taylor was hooked on Nessie. Of the four places aboard, three are still open, although Dan expects to invite another American, Robert Rines , who has been similarly preoccupied with the monster for years. Since then he has bought a cottage on Loch Ness-side and this year submerged a new set of cameras and strobe lights in the waters off Castle Urquhart. Dan's view is that the sophisticated side-scan sonar on the new submarine will produce the best chance yet of answering the Loch Ness monster puzzle.
Normal sonar bounces off a thermal barrier as the water gets colder.
But I will be able to get below that barrier in the submarine. With my sonar able to reach each bank of the loch, I will be like a spider at the centre of a web, waiting to ambush Nessie. Whatever she is, she won't get away this time. The intention is to take a biopsy from Nessie's hide, to establish what sort of creature she is. It will do Nessie no harm.