Scary but is it fake?

[long stroke]

Quote from email....Although this looks like a pic taken from a hollywood movie, it is infact a real photo, taken near the south African coast during a Military exercise by the British navy.

IT HAS BEEN NOMINATED BY THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC AS "THE PHOTO OF THE YEAR"

It looks pretty real to me;)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image006ze1.jpg)https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

CHEERS TIM.

[Poida4x4]

Do a google search and you'll find it's a fake of two superimposed pictures..

[abaddonxi]

No, no, it's real.

snopes.com: Shark Attack (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/shark.asp)

Shark Attacks Helicopter! - Netlore Archive (http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blsharkattack.htm)

Shark "Photo of the Year" Is E-Mail Hoax (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0815_020815_photooftheyear.html)

Helicopter Shark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_Shark)

Cheers
Simon

[solmanic]

...taken near the south African coast during a Military exercise by the British navy.https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

I see the South Efricans have a Golden Gate bridge there too then...


...fake as!

[djhampson]

Fake sadly - snopes.com: Shark Attack (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/shark.asp)

Two great photos photoshopped together.

[Outlaw]

I've always like this one too of the shark coming after the surfer


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/11/524.jpg









though is actually a dolphin ;)

[long stroke]

So it is a fake, things you can do with photo shop:D

[jacked130]

its still a cool pic tho :D:D

[stevo68]

No, no, it's real.

snopes.com: Shark Attack (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/shark.asp)

Shark Attacks Helicopter! - Netlore Archive (http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blsharkattack.htm)

Shark "Photo of the Year" Is E-Mail Hoax (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0815_020815_photooftheyear.html)

Helicopter Shark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_Shark)

Cheers
Simon :Rolling:................there is though a really cool website where those pics of the sharks come from and they are breaching the water....just not at copters :D,

Regards

Stevo

[101RRS]

In 1980 I was aircrew onboard the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne deployed in the NW Indian Ocean. We were going to relieve a US carrier in the region. Before sailing we were briefed on two instances where downed US navy aircrew from the ship we were relieving had been taken by sharks while being winched - one was taken from the waist down while still in the water and the second had his legs or a leg taken off while being lifted from the water.

We had a couple of aircraft crash off the ship and soon after the pilots were recovered there were large sharks in the area where the aircraft sank.

So - while the pic may be a fake, the scenio is feasible.

Garry