The camera was discovered by chance during a test mission by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC). Boaty McBoatface spotted the camera by running into it, and becoming tangled in the camera's mooring, which became caught on the submersible's propeller.

A camera trap deployed by a Loch Ness researcher in 1970 was recently recovered by an autonomous robot. Not only was it still intact—it still had film that could be developed, and the photos show a glimpse of the murky depths of the loch. Robots like the one that found the camera are often tested in Loch Ness before going out into the open ocean.

Roy P. Mackal — the controversial and colorful University of Chicago scientist whose study of monsters caught the attention of the New York Times and People magazine — died in 2013. In his effort to capture images of "Nessie,