![]() ‘Furthermore, the use of satellite technology means that if Nessie is just swimming below the surface like in this case, we can still pick her up.’ Mr Campbell, 49, a chartered accountant who lives in Inverness, said: ‘Now that we have spies in the skies above Loch Ness, maybe we will get more sightings which will whet the appetite of more down to earth Nessie hunters to come north. Both he and Mr Dixon forwarded the image to the club. Peter Thain, from Newbiggin by the Sea, Northumberland, also came across the same image through Apple’s satellite map app. I’ve never been to Loch Ness but I’m always interested in that sort of stuff.’ The image was recorded by sonar equipment on board the flagship vessel of Inverness-based Jacobite Cruises as it sailed on Loch Ness, pictured It was the shape of it, I thought it had to be something more than a shadow. ‘The first thing that came into my head when I saw it was, “That’s the Loch Ness Monster”. I was looking at satellite images of my town and then just thought I’d have a look at Loch Ness. One of the spotters, Andrew Dixon, 26, a charity worker for the Great North Air Ambulance, from Darlington, County Durham, said: ‘It was a total fluke that I found it. The club was alerted to the new image by two people who noticed it at the end of last year on satellite pictures used by Apple for its smartphone maps. In February Mr Campbell announced that no one had come forward in the previous 18 months to say they had seen Nessie – the first time since 1925 this had happened. ![]() The image has ended a recent drought in ‘confirmed sightings’ of the creature. The photographs were captured by two different amateur Nessie hunters scanning different satellites transmitting images of the earth from space - Peter Thain from Northumberland and Andy Dixon County Durham ![]()
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