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[richterca]

And now, because I know you all love these so much, here is my Two-Minute Review of The Water Horse.

There are two main plots to The Water Horse. In the "A" plot, a young Scottish boy named Angus finds an egg which hatches into the Loch Ness Monster. Angus misses his father who went off to war a few years earlier. In the "B" plot, a regiment of

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[aresk]

From Wikipedia: "The Caledonian Canal, which links the sea at either end of the fault, uses Loch Ness for part of its route."

[richterca]

Further investigation (and not easy stuff, either, there's no good information anywhere on the Caledonian Canal) seems to indicate that Loch Ness was originally about 8-10 miles from some inlet or bay that I can't find the name of at Inverness, and that the channel was laid to connect it.

By that reasoning, if you want to keep U-Boats out of the Loch, you do it at the mouth of the channel, not where it enters the Loch. And besides that, the movie totally ignores that channel, and shows the Loch opening up directly to the ocean, like it was just some sort of Bay like the Chesapeake or something.

[richterca]

UPDATE:
Found this page: Map of the Caledonian Canal.

Click on the "+" twice, and follow the red line up through Loch Ness, into Loch Dochfour, then over 10 miles of land to Beauly Firth, which is still pretty far from the sea proper.