Photo of the Year (1 Viewer)

[Scott Dautel]

Admin: Please fix the typo in the title (teh = the) DOH!
This photo was sent to me this morning and it is claimed to be the real deal. It was snapped during a British Navy training exercise off the coast of South Africa. I was told it has been nominated as picture of the year (National Geographic, it seems)
Talk about a rough day at work!
You decide ... real or hoax?
UPDATE: found this to prove it's bogus. No surprise.
Oh well ... send it along to your nieve friends
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[BrianB]

It's fake.
That's the Golden Gate bridge in the background for starters.
Go have a search for "Shark" on www.snopes.com
They've actually got links to the "real" photos that were edited together to make the composite image.

 

[AllanN]

It looks pretty real, but with all the easily accessible imaging software out there. It could have easily been faked.

 

[Jody C Robins]

Do you really have to ask?

 

[Josh Lowe]

That is so photoshopped.
Sharks don't jump out of the water like that. Not to mention the angle and attitude of its body is all wrong if it really were leaping out of the water.
Not to mention the sound of a helicopter that size would scare the living shit out of a shark.
Not to mention that's San Francisco bay. A great white next to the bridge? No.
Ugh, I just hate this silly hoax photos that get passed around as being real. Next we'll see that stupid photo of the VW Jetta with all the "lumber" strapped to the top with string.

 

[Joel Mack]

nevermind.

 

[Dennis Reno]

Sharks don't jump out of the water like that.

Actually they do. If you don't believe me, purchase the DVD from The Discovery Channel Link Removed!
Very cool programs. Those crazy, wacky sharks! You never know what they will come up with next!

 

[Scott Dautel]

Dennis:

Talk about ironic ... that Discovery channel DVD you linked to uses the same photo on the DVD cover that was used to doctor the Helicopter photo!

FWIW .. this week is "Shark Week" on Discovery. Probably the reason for the resurgence of this photo. Anyway, they've been running the special on breaching sharks in South Africa almost nightly. It is really amazing to see these mosnters leap out of the water with a big seal in their mouth.

 

[NickSo]

Yeah, the background looks like golden gate bridge.. you dont get many sharks in sanfrancisco do ya?

 

[Kyle-K]

I thought that was true... snopes thinks so too...
Lumber Car >>
--kyle

 

[Kami]

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Really cool pic though

 

[John Garcia]

you dont get many sharks in sanfrancisco do ya?

Actually, this area is PRIME great white hunting territory, especially this time of year. I don't know about them actually coming into the bay itself, but just off the coast, both North and South there are large populations of seal and sea lion breeding areas and great whites are VERY common. In fact, there were beach closures yesterday due to sightings near public beaches.

As for the photo, it's pretty damn obvious that it is fake.

 

[Philip Hamm]

Like the famous "Bad Bay" MPEG of the guy wrecking his computer, the fact that this is a fake doesn't really make it any less funny to me.

 

[Dennis Reno]

Even if it was real, the guy was in no danger. I'm certain he had a can of Shark Repellent in his Bat Belt