Tammy van Wisse - Bass Strait

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According to this, I could have become a snack for Nessie during my crossing !!

Mysterious ... the Google Earth image spotted by a British security guard

Image may be Loch Ness monster
Nessie enthusiasts excited
Alternative explanation offered

AN eagle-eyed Google Earth user claims to have found photographic evidence of the Loch Ness monster.

British security guard Jason, 25, found the image while navigating around the Google's satellite images.

It shows a large bullet shape trailed by appear to be limbs or tentacles.

He told UK tabloid The Sun: "I couldn't believe it. It's just like the descriptions of Nessie."

Researcher Adrian Shine, of the Loch Ness Project, said: "This is really intriguing. It needs further study."

To see the object, enter co-ordinates Latitude 5712'52.13"N, Longitude 434'14.16"W in Google Earth.

Enthusiasts believe the centuries of reported sighting of the Loch Ness monster are proof that some aquatic dinosaurs may have survived in the deep waters of the Scotland.

However many scientists are more sceptical.

Another UK tabloid the The Daily Mail posts some images of boats on Loch Ness, suggesting a much less prehistoric explanation for the mysterious image.

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Bass Strait

Sir Edmund Hilary climbed Everest because it was there. NASA sent Neil Armstrong to the moon for the same reason.

Tammy van Wisse found her challenge in Bass Strait.

When courageous Tammy came ashore at Apollo Bay, after spending more than 17 hours slogging wearily for 100km, she became the first person to swim the strait from King Island to Victoria.

This terrible stretch of water with its fickle weather, violent westerly winds and fierce currents has been Australia's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle for

countless ships and their crews and passengers. King Island is known as Shipwreck Island.

With this forbidding reputation, the strait is definitely not recommended for swimmers.

But Tammy swam all night. As the sun went down the sea grew cold and chilled her bones. She suffered nausea caused by swallowing too much seawater. As she neared the Victorian coast, she battled a 2.5 metre swell.

As 1000 people cheered her ashore at Apollo Bay, her brother John, with whom she once swam the English Channel, said: "Once she's done something, she wants to try something bigger."

Because it is there.