The Loch Ness monster could be feasting on fresh salmon, new research has found.
The latest quest for the legendary beast saw a team use Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) which are like underwater drones.
Researchers used strategically positioned baited camera traps and, for the first time, have captured underwater footage of large pike and salmon in the loch.
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These species have never been filmed at such depths before now.
And explorers, who undertook the research last Saturday (24 May) and Sunday (25 May), believe they might be what Nessie is eating to survive.
“The Loch Ness mystery is very much alive,” Nagina Ishaq, General Manager of The Loch Ness Centre, told What’s The Jam.
“We all want the same thing – to discover the secrets that lie beneath the loch.
“The footage we have captured using the ROVs has just made us more determined than ever to continue our search for the truth.”
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The team also discovered long-lost cabling from American Nessie enthusiast Dr Robert Rines’ 1970 expedition – a key moment in the scientific search for the monster.
Lines from his original lighting equipment were found resting deep in the loch’s sediment.
And Loch Ness visitor Col Veacock believes he may have snapped the monster when a mysterious object he initially dismissed as a buoy suddenly vanished.
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The 59-year-old was at the water’s edge on Friday (23 May) when he thought he saw something “but it kept disappearing”.
He said: “I kept losing sight of it.
“It appeared from nowhere and vanished in a similar way.
“To the naked eye – through binoculars – it looked green.
“My first thought was that it was a buoy.
“But when I returned there was no buoy in that area.
“It looked much taller than the boat that passed it so I would say it was four to six feet tall.”
The research team’s ROVs also uncovered the ruins of Temple Pier.
In 1952, Cobb set off from the pier in an attempt to break the world water speed record on Loch Ness using his jet-powered boat, the Crusader.
He was aiming to hold both the land and water speed titles simultaneously.
During his second run, the Crusader hit an unexpected wake, causing it to disintegrate and resulting in Cobb’s death.
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