Pequod

Suspended high in the Waters of the Loch area is a full-size replica of the underwater section of Pequod, a unique glass-bottomed research boat built by Adrian Shine and used in 1975 to explore Loch Morar.
The vessel was named Pequod after Captain Ahab’s ship in Herman Melville’s famous novel Moby-Dick, a fitting name for a small research boat exploring the depths in search of a legendary creature.
Just 8 feet (2.4 metres) long and powered by a small 2-horsepower engine, Pequod carried a crew of two. One steered the boat, while the other lay inside a narrow viewing compartment beneath the waterline, looking through a clear acrylic dome to observe the loch below.
The boat was towed to survey areas by a support vessel before slowly travelling in and out from the shoreline. In this way, Pequod covered around 200 miles of survey, searching for unusual bones and recording underwater plants.
The team could see up to 10 metres below the surface. Although they found plenty of bones, they also discovered just as many discarded beer cans! When the bones were later recovered by scuba divers, they were all identified as sheep and deer.
While no mysterious creatures were found, the expedition provided valuable information about the shallow-water habitats of Loch Morar.