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Timothy Dinsdale, ARAeS (born 1924 in India, died December 1987) was famous as a seeker of the Loch Ness Monster. He attended King’s School, Worcester,^[1] served in the Royal Air Force and worked as an aeronautical engineer. He was survived by his wife, Wendy Dinsdale and four children.

During his first week of watching Loch Ness on 23 April 1960, he took a grainy film of an object on the loch which is believed by some to be proof of the existence of the monster. JARIC analyzed it and believed it was an animate object. Computer enhancements however, suggest there was an additional hump along the back of the creature. He dedicated his life to obtaining further evidence, taking part in a total of 56 expeditions, many of them solo. Although he claimed to have later seen the monster's head and neck on two occasions, he failed to obtain any more video footage. He also published several books on the subject.

He is commemorated in the Dinsdale Memorial Award.^[2]

Bibliography

• 1961 Tim Dinsdale Loch Ness Monster (Routledge & Kegan Paul)
• 1966 Tim Dinsdale The Leviathans (Routledge & Kegan Paul)
• 1972 Tim Dinsdale Loch Ness Monster, 2nd ed (Routledge & Kegan Paul)
• 1973 Tim Dinsdale The Story of the Loch Ness Monster (Target) ISBN 0426105915
• 1975 Tim Dinsdale Project Water Horse. The true story of the monster quest at Loch Ness (Routledge & Kegan Paul) ISBN 0710080301
• 1976 Tim Dinsdale The Leviathans (revised edition) (Futura) ISBN 0 8600 7365 3
• 1977 Tim Dinsdale The facts about Loch Ness and the monster (Johnston & Bacon)

References

• Unknown Explorers