The fake photo

Helicopter Shark is a composition of two photographs that gives the impression that a great white shark is leaping out of the water to attack 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 YOUR HAVING A BAD DAY AT WORK !!" [sic] The photo is similar to an incident in the 1966 film Batman where a shark attacks Batman on a ladder from a helicopter. This raised suspicions that the photo in question was a hoax. National Geographic publicly disavowed the photo and the claimed award as a hoax.[1][2]

The hoax has been discussed in various texts, including a marketing book to teach lessons about influence[3] and a book on teaching critical thinking.[4] The author Carmel Morris[5] who was known to create and circulate many 'Photoshopped' shark attack images during this period has denied creating the helicopter shark image.

The original creator has come forward and is Bobby Hutchinson.[6] A GaS Digital Network Producer who took part in Photoshop challenges on the website fark.com.

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 taken in False Bay, South Africa.[7][8]

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References

  1. ↑ Shark "Photo of the Year" Is E-Mail Hoax, National Geographic, March 8, 2005. Accessed September 11, 2007.
  2. ↑ "Shark Attack". Snopes. 25 August 2001. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
  3. ↑ Ira Matathia and Marian L. Salzman (2003). Buzz: Harness the Power of Influence and Create Demand. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-27345-7.
  4. ↑ Cris Tovani (2004). Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12. Stenhouse Publishers. ISBN 1-57110-376-7.
  5. ↑ "Search Results | National Library of Australia". catalogue.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  6. ↑ "Bobby Hutchinson on Instagram: "Every so often I laugh to myself when I think about this: (Google: Helicopter Shark, wiki) I created that image & uploaded it to fark.com for one of their photoshop challenges. I didn't win, but what happened with the picture was way better."". Instagram. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
  7. ↑ McClain, Dylan Loeb (October 7, 2002). "Compressed Data; Another Big Fish Story Comes Unraveled". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
  8. ↑ "Great White internet hoax drives huge sales of photo". Sunday Territorian. June 26, 2006.


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