Loch Ness Hero Robert Rines Dies Cryptomundo

Loren Coleman's obituary of Robert H. Rines, a tireless seeker of the Loch Ness Monster, who died on Sunday at the age of 87. Rines became interested in the search for Nessie after attending a talk in 1969 by Roy Mackal. Two years later he saw a 20-foot-long hump moving in Urquhart Bay. That encounter led Rines on his quest, the culmination of which was probably the underwater photographs of what he felt was the cryptid in the 1970s. In recent years, Rines theorized that the creatures known collectively as the Loch Ness Monster may have become extinct, citing the lack of significant sonar readings and a decline in eyewitness accounts.