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It followed a plea from the leader of the joint Scandinavian-Scottish expedition trying to track down
Nessie by using hi-tech military hydrophones.

The sensors, similar to hunt submarines, were position 250ft below the loch. But shortly afterwards, RAF
Tornado fighter bombers screamed at about 200ft above the waves. And, even at the depth they were working at, the Nessie hunters on their ship the Highland Commander picked up the engine noise.
After being interrupted on several occasions, erpedition leader Jan Sundberg from Motala, Sweden, took action and called the RAF. Mr Sundberg.said: "We could clearly hear the loud whooshing of the jets as they passed and we felt that there was no way a sensitive creature would be active with that noise  going on.

Gary Campbell president of the Inverness-based Loch Ness Monster Fan Club that helped organise the
five-day Nessie 2000 expedition, said so far all the hydrophones had picked up was the sound of several eels and a catfish.