Has Apple maps found the Loch Ness Monster ?

[dipsydoodle]

Since its inception in the sixth century, the legend of the Loch Ness Monster has endured unreliable sightings, doctored photos and faked footprints, but a mysterious satellite image has given fresh hope to believers of the elusive Scottish sea creature.

The image, taken by an Apple map satellite, depicts a shadowy form of around 100 feet in length with something akin to flippers in the water of the Loch Ness.

"We've been looking at it for a long time trying to work out exactly what it is," Gary Campbell, president of the Official Loch Ness Monster Fan Club, told the Daily Mail.

"It looks like a boat wake, but the boat is missing. We've shown it to boat experts and they don't know what it is."

After studying the image for six months, and with apparently no other obvious explanation, the Club has concluded that shadow is probably the Loch Ness Monster.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10775966/Has-Apple-maps-found-the-Loch-Ness-Monster.html

[intaglio]

1. It's (1) Apple maps and (2) The Torygraph

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If you look at the image you can see the prop wash from a single prop

Actually it looks like the wake made by a small vehicle ferry similar to this one at Padstow but traveling at about 50% hull speed


Or it may be the Fingal, photographed under conditions of poor contrast

[Jesus Malverde]

2. I'd go with boat wake...nt

[William Seger]

3. It's a boat wake

I found this comparison (posted here) by a guy named Dave Wood:



My guess is that the boat was "disappeared" by the software that merges images together.

(Edit: Here is the original Google image of the boat: https://www.google.se/maps/place/57%C2%B024%2741.6%22N+4%C2%B019%2735.1%22W/%4057.4115924%2c-4.3260235,537m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 )

[jberryhill]

4. Or swamp gas

Or Venus.

Gotta be one of those three.