| Shark Attacks Helicopter! |
| Alleged photo of a great white shark lunging out of the water to attack a scuba diver dangling precariously from a helicopter ladder. Real or fake? Fake!!!!!!!!! This story started circulating around August 2001. |
| Below is an excerpt of what was included in the e-mail: |
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| AND YOU THINK YOUR HAVING A BAD DAY AT WORK !! Although this looks like a picture taken from a Hollywood movie, it is in fact a real photo, taken near the South African coast during a military exercise by the British Navy. It has been nominated by Geo as "THE photo of the year". |
| Anyone who's ever visited San Francisco knows this "real" photo couldn't possibly have been taken off the South African coast. That's the Golden Gate Bridge in the background! |
| The picture is unquestionably a fake, but a very good one. It's a composite of a U.S. Air Force photo (inverted) of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during a National Guard rescue diver training session in San Francisco Bay. (See Picture Below) |
| And a dramatic still of a great white shark breaching the ocean surface by acclaimed underwater photographer Charles Maxwell. Maxwell says he shot the shark footage in False Bay near Cape Town, South Africa. (See Picture Below) |
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