Apple's satellite map app has allegedly captured remarkable images of a creature swimming below the surface of the world famous loch through a satellite high in the atmosphere, UK MailOnline reported.

The images were shot and scanned by two different amateur Nessie hunters, Peter Thain from Northumberland and Andy Dixon from County Durham, through transmitted images of the earth from space.

After no photographs emerged of the Loch Ness Monster in 2013, concerns were raised of the mythical creature being dead, STV News reported.

"It was purely by accident that I came across the image. I was trawling through satellite transmissions of different parts of the country and I thought I would try Loch Ness," Dixon said.

"I could see something big under the water and I saved it to my phone. My first thought was that it was the monster and I contacted Gary Campbell of the Official Loch Ness Monster Club."

He continued, "I was a believer in Nessie even before this but I had never seen it. Now I am so excited, I can't wait to get up north and pay a visit - with a camera of course. Unfortunately I have not seen anything since but I will keep looking."

The shape could only belong to the mythical beast, and no one else, Veteran Nessie-hunter Campbell claimed, according to UK MailOnline reported.

"We first received Peter's information at the back end of last year but took some time to try to work out what it was. Initially it was difficult because it doesn't appear on all online satellite images - only some of them on Apple products," he said.

"When Andy got in touch at the beginning of the year, we finally managed to locate a device that had the image on it and asked some boating experts to look at it. They confirmed that while it looks like a boat wake, it cannot be a boat as there is no hull or superstructure visible. This is confirmed by the fact that there are clear images of other boats in the pictures."

Campbell added, "Whatever it is, it's just below the surface and heading south so unless there have been secret submarine trials going on in the loch, the size of the object would make it likely to be Nessie."