• Quick note - the problem with Youtube videos not embedding on the forum appears to have been fixed, thanks to ZiprHead. If you do still see problems let me know.

Apple Maps accidentally finds Loch Ness Monster

Travis

Misanthrope of the Mountains
Travis
Joined
Mar 31, 2007
Messages
24,133
Unfortunately the Apple Map directions to get to this location requires you to drive through Cardiff, twice.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...s-Apple-maps-found-the-Loch-Ness-Monster.html

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. You can see some boats moored at the shore, but there's one here. 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 other obvious explanation, the Club has concluded that shadow is probably the Loch Ness Monster.
Click to expand...

Looking at the image itself I can see how someone might want to see Nessie but I can also think of many other things it is much more likely to be.
 
I know these sat maps are made from strips of photographs that can be taken at different times, leading to weird asynchronicity. I don't see anything like that in the pic, other than the oddly clean square edge of the 'front' of the supposed wake. i.e. maybe the boat was cut-off in time.

Could this image be a wake from a boat too small to see in the photo?
 
Donn said:
I know these sat maps are made from strips of photographs that can be taken at different times, leading to weird asynchronicity. I don't see anything like that in the pic, other than the oddly clean square edge of the 'front' of the supposed wake. i.e. maybe the boat was cut-off in time.

Could this image be a wake from a boat too small to see in the photo?
Click to expand...

Rather large wake and spray for a boat that would have to be that small.
 
Yeah, I thought so too. What else could it be? A log, unseen, beneath the water, dragging that wake?

They claim it's 100 feet, but is it?
 
Donn said:
Yeah, I thought so too. What else could it be? A log, unseen, beneath the water, dragging that wake?

They claim it's 100 feet, but is it?
Click to expand...

Agreed. Scale is almost impossible to judge in that picture - or any picture that's all water - without a reference object. In addition, the "object" in the picture doesn't look solid to me, nor does it look as if it's beneath the surface of the loch. I agree with other posters that it looks most like a wake.
 
Is there any way to confirm it comes from Apple maps?

I find the symmetry odd -- it looks like it might have been faked.

ETA - To be sure, not Slowvehicle's masterful reveal, that's totally legit.
 
To me, the general outline looks like a whale shark or a basking shark. I think the reported size would be way off, in that case; it's my impression they only get to 50-60 feet. I also don't know if the Loch communicates with the open ocean.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom