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twinkletoes · You have been awarded the Posting Star of Honor!

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tuna_chaser · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

u gotta be kidding. thats a tough one to swallow. lmao WOW!!!

twinkletoes · You have been awarded the Posting Star of Honor!

nope im not kidding that is a real photo not some photoshop job ..my jaw hit the floor when i saw it .. (i was searching to read about shark attacks lol)

tuna_chaser · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

very impressive!!

dusty082155 · ~Best In Show~ Senior Board Member!

its a good thing that isnt a before and after pic !!

Kittys Mom · ~Best In Show~ Senior Board Member!

If that is for real...jeeeez.

Kittys Mom · ~Best In Show~ Senior Board Member!

TUNA, TUNA..human, human...JEEEZ

ZoeandTucker · Post-a-Holic - Give this person a rabies shot!

I knew I had seen this photo a loooooong time ago. It is actually an urban legend. Here's a comment on the photo from urbanlegends.com

Comments: Anyone who has ever visited San Francisco (or even seen postcard pictures of the place) 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 image is unquestionably a fake, albeit 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 rescue diver training session in San Francisco Bay and a still shot of a great white shark breaching the ocean surface by acclaimed underwater photographer Charles Maxwell.

Shark attacks helicopter

Detail (original size)Maxwell says the shark image came from footage shot in False Bay near Cape Town, South Africa.

The anonymous cut-and-paste job first began circulating in August 2001, when sharks and shark attacks were very much in the news because of the widely publicized mauling of eight-year-old Jessie Arbogast off Pensacola Beach, Florida. The 2002 variant featured here, circulating as a Word document with fabricated (and misspelled) caption, appeared precisely one year later.

twinkletoes · You have been awarded the Posting Star of Honor!

WOW an i thought it was real Shy ..woops heck they are talented ..thats is a great hoax..

Michael came home for his lunch earlier and he is South African+ was born and raised in Cape Town and didnt come to the uk till he was 22 ..he told me straight away that there isnt a bridge like that there ....ooops!

Sydney · Moderator

wow, that photo is so cool, im so scared of sharks and the ocean i would have had a heartattack!

twinkletoes · You have been awarded the Posting Star of Honor!

-- Edited by twinkletoes at 09:25, 2005-07-21

lil_exorcist · MAD DOG!

He he i was just getting ready to post that it was a fake then I saw Zoe's post. Keep on reading Ex dummy. Anyways, when i first saw this I thought it was real, but after I married my husband I subscribed to a military.com newsletter or whatever. Anyways.....throughout this newsletter that is one of the pictures they have and the military posts that it is indeed a fake photo with fun photo shop elements. As I stated in another thread, there are great whites off Seal Island that do breach the water, however I dont see them breaching to catch something that they didn't see in the water.