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Monster Hunters Search for Prey in Norway
August 2000 - OSLO (Reuters) - An international team of
monster hunters unveiled a giant trap for catching a fabled serpent, reputed to be a
cousin of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, in a lake in south Norway.
``This is the first serpent trap of its kind in the world,''
Jan Sundberg, a Swede leading a team of 12 experts, told Reuters. The team comprises seven
Swedes, three Norwegians, a Canadian and a Belgian.
The six-yard long tube-shaped trap, comprising a metal frame
with nylon netting, will be lowered into Seljord lake in south Norway. It will contain
live whitefish for bait to catch an elusive beast known to locals as ``Selma''.
``The trap is adapted from a fish trap for eels. If anything
up to about six meters long swims in one end, the opening closes and it won't be able to
get out,'' said Sundberg, a veteran of several inconclusive high-tech scans of the murky
lake.
The team plans to dangle the cage in the lake, about 110
miles southwest of Oslo, at depths of between 30 and 100 meters near where sightings of
the monster have been reported.
Two biologists at the University of Oslo were on standby to
fly down by helicopter and take tests if the trap works.
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