Helicopter Shark

Helicopter Shark

Helicopter Shark is a composition of two photographs that gives the impression that a Great White shark is leaping out of the water attacking military personnel climbing a suspended ladder attached to a special forces UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The photo was widely circulated via an email in 2001, along with a claim that it had been chosen as "National Geographic Photo of the Year". The email in question was usually written in the following form: "AND YOU THINK YOURsic HAVING A BAD DAY AT WORK !!" The photo is similar to an incident in the 1966 film, "Batman", where a shark attacks Batman on a ladder from a helicopter. This helped raise suspicion that the photo in question was a hoax. "National Geographic" publicly disavowed the photo and the claimed award as a hoax. [ [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0815_020815_photooftheyear.html Shark "Photo of the Year" Is E-Mail Hoax] , "National Geographic", March 8, 2005. Accessed September 11, 2007.] cite web |url=http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/shark.asp |title=Shark Attack |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote= |publisher=Snopes ]

The photo has even been discussed in a marketing book, to teach lessons in influence, [cite book | title = Buzz: Harness the Power of Influence and Create Demand | author = Ira Matathia and Marian L. Salzman | publisher = John Wiley and Sons | quote = At some point in 2002, you may have received an e-mail from a friend pointing you to an incredible photograph of a shark seemingly jumping out of the ocean ... |year = 2003 | isbn = 0471273457 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=sf85DYe9140C&pg=PA9&dq=helicopter+shark+photo&as_brr=0&ei=t3noRrjqA6jupQLUnsCGAw&sig=LQc6fwKm-cMl0O9QjyXXznVi03s ] and in a book on teaching reading, to teach about critical thinking. [cite book | title = Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12 | author = Cris Tovani | publisher = Stenhouse Publishers | quote =This photo has been nominated as National Geographic's Photo of the Year." "See," says Mallory. "The words say that it's a real photo." "So what? ... | year = Stenhouse Publishers | isbn = 1571103767 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Ous2ti3Nq7IC&pg=PT72&dq=helicopter+shark+bridge+photo&as_brr=0&ei=9KroRrxRgdKmAumJ5J4E&sig=rOe-TelOeKS_thAsSpAWmIfMlkg ]

The final edited photo was created by combining a photograph of a HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter taken by Lance Cheung for the United States Air Force (USAF), and a photo taken by South African photographer Charles Maxwell. While the helicopter photo was in fact taken in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, the photo of the shark was actually taken in False Bay, South Africa. [cite news |first=Dylan Loeb |last=McClain |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Compressed Data; Another Big Fish Story Comes Unraveled. |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04EEDE123BF934A35753C1A9649C8B63|quote=A photograph circulating on the Internet purports to show a great white shark leaping out of the water at a military diver hanging on a ladder from a hovering helicopter. A caption accompanying the photograph says: 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 National Geographic as 'the photo of the year.' |publisher=New York Times |date=October 7, 2002 |accessdate=2008-03-28 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Great White internet hoax drives huge sales of photo |url= |quote=... the shark was photographed By Mr Maxwell at False Bay, South Africa, and the helicopter was captured on film in San Francisco, right next to the Golden Gate Bridge ... |publisher=Sunday Territorian |date=June 26, 2006 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ]

References

See also

*Batman (TV series)
*Email hoax
*Internet humor
*Internet phenomenon
*Photo editing

External links

* [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0815_020815_photooftheyear.html National Geographic News article]
* [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0623_030627_swimmingwithsharks.html Swimming With the Sharks]
* [http://www.sfbayadventures.com/helicopter_sharks.html San Francisco Bay Adventures article]
* [http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/shark.asp Snopes article on this photo]


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