You decide… (click for larger image)
You got it right – it’s fake, but whoever did the photoshop job on it really deserves some praise. Here’s the link to the full story: Fake Shark Attack.
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September 10, 2005 at 10:10 am
Fake.
September 12, 2005 at 7:29 am
Fake,
I’ve seen this somewhere before.
June 16, 2006 at 10:43 am
i think this is fake it looks plastic
June 17, 2006 at 4:35 am
looks cool
June 18, 2006 at 11:24 am
100% shore its 50% fake
June 23, 2006 at 2:41 am
well nothing is fake in this pic
the shark is real
the helicopter is real
but it is 2 pics edited into one
June 29, 2006 at 11:59 am
This is way real as i took this photo from a boat nearby. My crew were videoing the helicopter when suddenly this creature just shot out of the water. Incredible Huh!
July 3, 2006 at 10:36 am
i knew this pic was fake cuz the the man who is driving the helicopter would have been flying up in the air so the other guy on the ladder wouldn’t die……anyways the helicopter is real so is the shark but some one did a very good job of making the pic look real!!!
July 3, 2006 at 10:38 am
the picture is real how can u say its fake??!! r u people dumb??!!
July 11, 2006 at 8:54 am
this pic is both real and fake
the skark is real the helicopter is real but there are 2 pics put in to one!
July 13, 2006 at 4:16 pm
soooooo fake
October 4, 2006 at 4:38 pm
U gatta be some kinda idiot to not see this is fake!
October 4, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Sharks real, helacopters real, but they put 2 pics in 1. it is sooooooo fake! if it were real the shark would of killed him by now!
October 17, 2006 at 11:19 am
i think that it looks bad ass and i love sharks this pic makes you want to see it up close lol
October 21, 2006 at 5:34 am
it could be real who knows .please goto this site http://x-wing-club.wetpaint.com/
October 23, 2006 at 12:48 pm
real….. yea right it looks so plastic i did not fall for that one bit
October 24, 2006 at 6:08 pm
its fake whoever did this is not right they try to say sharks ae mean but they’re nice i’ve been diving and cage diving and they’re cool.
October 24, 2006 at 6:10 pm
Ummm look at the helicopter and the backround dosnt fit in and thats not how sharks come out of the water… And it says “Shark Attacks Helicoper” ummnot sure that the shark would woin…who ever put this together must have thought that we were blind what a “DE DE DE”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 24, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Well i wait at the beach and wait until someone gets attack and video tape it and lagh like craZy…and ive been attacked by a shark before kikced his butt!!!! i puched him in the nose. Sharks arnt attracked to big flying noisey thingys and who made this video like Achupa De Haffen said what a “DE DE DE”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 26, 2006 at 7:41 am
LOL Its really fake………..besides the point why would a shark attack a helicopter??
October 28, 2006 at 7:22 pm
It’s a very cool picture. Both the helicopter and the shark are real, someone just edited them both into one. They did an awesome job though.
November 9, 2006 at 12:24 am
Its pretty cool but totally FAKE!!! my little brother thought it was real.
November 12, 2006 at 6:36 pm
I think this pic is freakin awesome!!! (eeeeeeeveen though it’s fake =[ ) I’m scared of sharks even though they’re my fav animal.
November 14, 2006 at 6:59 am
wow this pic is mad, thats sumin u dont see every day. To me it looks real and that bloke must need to change his pants lol
November 16, 2006 at 8:40 am
this big is real… and i`m eating it…hoono soomi.. 🙂
November 18, 2006 at 5:22 pm
If you have seen the website it is actully a real picture i’m am one of the people that help recive that picture from the training camp
November 18, 2006 at 8:03 pm
opps wrong forum. That shark picture is definatly fake
November 20, 2006 at 12:27 am
Totally real guys. I was the person on the ladder.
This photo was taken in Gwarm while we were getting different types of debris for an investigation. I assure you that this is 100% authentic, not tampered with at all. Most terrifying moment of my life.
I was in the water picking up evidence when I spotted it. I radioed the pilot immeadietly to come and pick me up.
The shark only just missed my feet, taking the bnottom of the ladder with him and pulling the helicopter down slightly with it’s incredible weight.
November 21, 2006 at 8:01 am
ha ha. where the hell is gwarm? somewhere close to sowth wafwicwa..?
November 23, 2006 at 1:11 pm
good try i like shark and the great white is my favourit but i think that it is un respectable for that great creature to make a joke of him like that anyway …….. respect to this great white
November 23, 2006 at 4:23 pm
This is sooooooo real ; and i’m an alien from outerspace ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. la der it’s fake!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
December 2, 2006 at 10:40 am
how can this be in south africa?? its in san fransico cause the golden bridge is in the backgroud and der is no way a great white can survive in dat water!! the pic is a fake but its a hel of a gd 1!!
December 7, 2006 at 12:59 pm
I think that the picis fake if it was realthen the guy jumpi
December 7, 2006 at 4:33 pm
i think the pic is fake. i`m pretty sure u guys put 2 different pics together.
December 7, 2006 at 4:36 pm
hey me again ummm… my cuzin wrote that other comment so ya… this is MY comment…..this picture is real and fake…its realy cuz the helicpoter & the shark r real….they picture is fake cuz its 2 pictures in 1…so……u can tell its fake but when i first saw this picture i actually thought it was real… but whoever made that picture is really good!!!!
luv ya
December 7, 2006 at 4:41 pm
real**
December 14, 2006 at 2:11 pm
fake,
December 15, 2006 at 9:31 am
SHARKS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!! YA!!!!!!!!! :p
December 21, 2006 at 7:08 pm
its real coz u can see the guy get scared and start climbing the ladder. and whoever said why would a shark attack a helicopter the answere is it wouldveseen the shadow and gone up to attack it thinking its food.
January 8, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Well I think we all know now that it is a fake ‘happening’, but hell it sure got my attention and anyone elses that has seen it for that matter. A job very well done and clever thinking to the arteest behind it. Good-o!
January 25, 2007 at 8:22 pm
this is a bad ass pic got a lot of people to think it was real but.GOOD JOB on the editting. if the pic was real the guy on the ladder flushed his whole insides out.
February 10, 2007 at 10:01 am
i think this is fake. look at the helicopters tail, it looks computer-created
February 15, 2007 at 1:58 pm
this pic is cool. sadly the man dies and the shark wins yey.
February 21, 2007 at 1:46 am
DIASPORA A LA CON
March 1, 2007 at 4:56 am
FAKE FAKE FAKE
March 2, 2007 at 11:13 am
i think that this is 2 pics combined together to make it look real coz i have benn both the pics but when i have seen them they were seperate but in this pic they are as one. The shark in this picture doesnt look 100% real to me but i could be wrong as i am in a lot of things…LOL… i have ssen a shark but only a reef shark when i went to the carribean wiv my mum, dad and 2 brothers, at first i was slightley scared but after a while the fear dissaperas and you just think like oh wow…my favourite shark is the tiger shark although they are quite dangerous i like tigers and they are dangerous two but they are cute althhough i wouldnt like to come face to face wiv 1…lol…
March 6, 2007 at 7:32 am
Whoever said this looks fake because it looks like plastic is a straight retard. First of all everything in this photo is real. The only thing that’s fake about it is that the shark was copied and pasted. It’s a real shark you idiot.
March 10, 2007 at 4:57 pm
biggest bullshit
March 10, 2007 at 5:00 pm
everybody is an ashole by spending time writing this stupid shit including me
March 21, 2007 at 4:21 am
This pic is a real 1 but mi personal opinion iz that 2 pix r put in2 1!! nobody cnt rele comment on this az fuk all ppl know whether itz real or not! u lot finkin u know it all wen guess wot ppz u dnt! both the helicopter and the shark iz real but the question is whether itz all a scam! could b real…could b fake…u fukerz dnt know shit!
March 21, 2007 at 4:27 am
me agen ppz…ppl that get this type in2 google shark attacks n the top 3 pix that show iz the pic of that shark! so yehh u lot that sed itz fake wel done coz this pic is fukin bull. jus proved that bi givin u lot the link x peace x
March 24, 2007 at 9:28 pm
If that photo is real then that guy is screwed
What would you do if you were that guy on the laddder
March 31, 2007 at 4:52 pm
I love animals. I love sharks too. They are amazing creatures and have been on the earth before the dawn of man. Therefore they must be respected.
… The truth of the matter is that this is a digitally enhanced photo i.e. two in one.
The shark image was taken off the coast of Africa. This great white threw its huge body out of the water as it was hunting a seal. I would have loved to have been there! Here he is in the original photo enjoy- he was hungry, he has to eat too… enjoy xox http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blsharkattack2.htm
April 7, 2007 at 1:00 pm
HaHaHa! So you have found my photo? Yes it is fake I admit. But did I do a good job on making them in one picture? I used a Mac though, not a pc.
April 9, 2007 at 6:11 am
this pic iz so fake its 2 pics put together dont u think the man or women wud of died every1 can clearly see that it is goin for its head so it couldnt of gone for the feet could it now ?
April 13, 2007 at 10:00 am
this is soo real i just no it im always right!!!!
April 13, 2007 at 10:03 am
this is so real i just no it im always right!!!!
April 15, 2007 at 7:05 pm
this is fake.its from scoops.com or something like that it has messed up pics and it tells u if its real or fake.if u think this is real ur a DE DA DE!!!!!!!!!!
April 19, 2007 at 11:24 am
wow dumbass
April 19, 2007 at 2:14 pm
hail zolton!!!!!!
April 22, 2007 at 3:37 pm
That’s a load of crap!!! Your right Baker they are retarded. This is impossible. It’s from a movie or someting Go to Pete Wentz on images and see is incident
April 23, 2007 at 5:41 pm
its fake look at the golden gate bridge behind it never new sharks live of the coast of san fran
April 25, 2007 at 6:45 am
Heyy pepole,
Before i saw this pictue i was not afraid of sharks well… these days i have the disease galeophobia. which means the fear of sharks. Now that i am finding out that it is fake i am hurt and MAD. I cant spend the rest of my life afraid of something that never happened i havent been in the ocean in forEVER because some idiot had to make me scared. By the way the idiot that made this picture did a WONDERFUL job. ps. I like to be scared! im not scared of anything but shark so thanks!! Email m if you have anymore scary photos!!! Kelsey20042003@yahoo.com my name is kelsey but call me KEL!!!thanks
April 27, 2007 at 5:31 pm
okay this photo is complete crap okay cuz trust me the photo quality is too good (unless they planned this). another thing look at the divers if you count there are two more divers in the water if you saw that shark coming the first thing you do is crack out the shark repellent (standard issue for divers going into shark filled waters). Now for the feast DE resistance look at the shark the proportions are wrong and if that shark was attacking the diver on the later it would have come from below and latched on to the divers legs and pulled him off. P.S. I know a lot of you are calling it a good job but the editor should have made it look more authentic motion blur on the shark and he/she should have taken out the other divers in the water along. plus he should have changed the resolution so that they both match up.
April 27, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I agree
April 30, 2007 at 7:57 am
poor shark! that helicopter just came outta nowhere!
April 30, 2007 at 12:48 pm
please god tell me that your being sarcastic. Please just lie to me and tell me you kidding
May 4, 2007 at 11:24 am
this shit is so real
May 4, 2007 at 12:08 pm
and we have idiot number two
May 5, 2007 at 1:16 pm
ok well i am 12 and even i can see that this is fake its sooooo ovious duh
May 11, 2007 at 11:23 am
navy sailor marvelle i hope your family gets eaten by that shark
May 11, 2007 at 5:39 pm
trust me it’d be doing me a favor. oh and if you had any brains (I enfasize on the word had) you’d now to click to the picture above and the the proof that its a frickin fake. Navy – one, Big balls – zero
May 20, 2007 at 7:08 pm
I can’t b-leve u guys thought this pic was real. you guys r such idiots. Anyway, sharks don’t just jump out of the water like that unless there is a seal that was being chased by the shark in the first place. U guys that created this pic are retarded. DE……..DE……….DE……….
May 23, 2007 at 4:39 pm
OMG!! navy sailor marvelle, you crack me up!! i was laughing on the floor at wat u said!! this pic is so retardedly fake……..SHNUGGETS
May 23, 2007 at 4:47 pm
HAHA that shark looks like a chipmunk…
OMG IM GOING 2 THE JB CONCERT(jonas brothers,if u stupidly didnt kno) HAHA
y am i writing u ask? BECAUSE I DONT WANT 2 DO MY MENU PROJECT, OR MY HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“2DAY JR.!!” haha……..SHNUGGET
May 23, 2007 at 10:18 pm
u guys r still weird and yes for a fact i do luv sharks so stop frlippin kinlling them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bye
May 23, 2007 at 10:19 pm
u guys r still weird and yes for a fact i do luv sharks so stop frlippin killing them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bye
May 23, 2007 at 10:19 pm
u guys r still weird and yes for a fact i do luv sharks so stop flippin killing them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bye
May 24, 2007 at 4:06 pm
i made it…like it? : – )
its rele hards tho so dont try it..takes ALOT of wrk….but seriously, wouldnt it scare the life out of u if a shark was truly doing that to u?
May 24, 2007 at 4:54 pm
hey, cypher, is ur name brad?? caus i kno a brad cypher, hes in my class..is that u??
by the way, the ppl that made this pic, must be mentally challenged, o but dont worry,
im inautherized 2 teach u baseball 🙂
HAHA monster house
May 27, 2007 at 3:20 pm
i hate sharks..SHNUGGETS
May 28, 2007 at 10:34 am
just think, if this was an actual photo wot person wood sit in a boat (possibly watching some1 die)and take it??????????
June 1, 2007 at 12:59 pm
it look fake but is it???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/
June 1, 2007 at 3:17 pm
I saw this pic in one of the nat geo books, it showed the first picture of just the helipcopter and the diver, than the 2nd with the shark added in, besides look at the shark, looks like the ones out of the jaws movies.
June 21, 2007 at 7:52 pm
yeahh okay. this is way cool. but fake. dont you think that would be on the news? please! you can tell. and where the fuck is gwarm idiot?!
June 24, 2007 at 3:41 pm
this pic is addited together from 3 other pics :
1. the shark is from 1 pic
2. the helicopter is from enother pic
3. the background different
July 1, 2007 at 12:06 am
hahahahaha man that thing LOOKS real but it would of been BIG news catching something like that on video, not camera.
so the photoshops good.
July 5, 2007 at 6:46 am
Ohh MyGosh.. This Picture Is So Scary! Did The Person On The Ladder Get Hurt? XX
July 5, 2007 at 3:13 pm
that is so fucking fake why will a shark jump at that diver
July 16, 2007 at 11:15 pm
it looks really kool:) good job:)
July 29, 2007 at 8:00 am
omggggggggg .
worst thing i ever saw / im scared to swim in oceans . 😐
July 30, 2007 at 10:33 am
I call bullshit
August 2, 2007 at 1:14 pm
it is a toy =)
August 3, 2007 at 4:24 pm
The story behind the picture that i have read is that it was taken in the Australian coast while the British Forces were doing exercises. Out of no where the shark lept from the water and knocked the man off the ladder, he was rescued without further incident. However, if you knew anything at all about the jumping behaviors of sharks, then you would know that the only place in the world that Great Whites jump out of the water is in the Ring of Death, of the coast of South Africa at an island affectionately known as seal island. So, that leads me to my next point, there is no bridges in Australia that look like the one in the background (in fact it is the Golden Gate in San Francisco) and Australian Whites dont jump like the South African ones. Nice try but fake to a T
August 6, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I think this pic is sooooo fake. The shark looks real and the heliocopter looks real too. But ther two pics put in one.
August 8, 2007 at 11:50 am
shark is absolutely real
helicopter is also real
but they both are not in a same location but they just try to make you fool
August 10, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Hey!! I like this pic! When i looked at it at first it seemed real and scary! Obviously if you look at it carrefully , you will notice some defaults! but this is not true so somehow they needed to attach a pic from another! However it is well made!! good job! 😉 XX
August 10, 2007 at 6:12 pm
you can tell its fake because its the godlen gate bridge in the back ground and great white do not hang around there.
August 10, 2007 at 6:16 pm
golden*
August 12, 2007 at 4:44 am
this is so real i was the guy in the water lol
Anyone believe me
August 14, 2007 at 5:42 am
this was photshopped for a movie…
the shark picture was taken in south africa, and the helicopter is part of US army training missions.
They then put the two pictures together….
August 21, 2007 at 11:57 am
it looks very real but it is fake but i have to admit the guy who did this must of been ace at photography
August 23, 2007 at 5:41 pm
hey haven’t talked or checked this website in a while! Does anyone think they know who I am?!!!
August 23, 2007 at 5:42 pm
hey haven’t talked or checked this website in a while! Does anyone think they know who I am?!!! If they do make sure you kall me
August 25, 2007 at 12:58 pm
This is cool but so fake it could happen but sharks are afraid of any loud noises how do i know i study sharks nice try guys better luck next time
August 30, 2007 at 8:44 am
i think its real because the shark is real and the helicopter is real and also the person
August 30, 2007 at 3:04 pm
i read an article and it said that it was real
August 31, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Do some people actually think it’s a real picture ? The light which is on the shark is not the same that the one which is on the helicopter … Watch better 😉
September 1, 2007 at 7:38 am
Sharks attack teeth first with its long snout this shark would have attacked with a body roll so it would be sideways or upside down had it jumped out of the water. The docile stance inidactes its probably been fished and was hanging somewhere.
FAKE.
September 3, 2007 at 11:36 am
it looks really scary Run! It is real
September 6, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Yeah this is very fake….i have seen the skark breahing in a tottaly seperate picture. Though it is a very good attempt to make a great story, its not real…the sharks eyes arent even rolled back!
September 6, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Yeah this is very fake….i have seen the skark breaching in a tottaly seperate picture. Though it is a very good attempt to make a great story, its not real…the sharks eyes arent even rolled back!
September 7, 2007 at 9:04 am
To author.
Add some mist around the shark.
Now all mist from copter behind the shark. It means shark is not under copter.
September 8, 2007 at 4:01 pm
this is a joke so clean this mess up
you guys should know better then
this.
gary01
September 8, 2007 at 4:05 pm
i really think that this is pretty cool
i mean give the guys credit for coming
up with this stupid darn idea. i know that
wouldn’t be me in that water.
September 8, 2007 at 4:06 pm
i really think that this is pretty cool
i mean give the guys credit for coming
up with this stupid darn idea. i know that
wouldn’t be me in that water.
sharon
September 10, 2007 at 4:58 pm
this photos fake. im not folling for the stupid “oh its real cus dat was me!” ####. ive been to many sites and learned it was photoshopped-with proof.
i am a critic and i think i know what im talking about okay?
lmao.
September 13, 2007 at 8:52 am
WOW this is so Fake, I must addmit though it had me there for a second….. I thought it was real 😀 but Now I no its fake!
September 16, 2007 at 5:12 pm
That Is NOT the Golden Gate bridge. Do you see any suspentions or cables on it at all! I don’t think so!!! Whoever said it was the Golden Gate Bridge is a real…DE…DE…DE
P.S. The pic is real
September 17, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Also, go look at a real pic of the Golden Gate Bridge. It doesn’t look like that at all.
Also, sharks do jump out of the water at Seal Island.
It probably attacked because sharks can sense movement in the water and went to attack the person.
September 19, 2007 at 9:08 pm
OMG THAT LOOKS SO REAL! Y ARE PEOPLE SAYING ITS FAKE!
September 20, 2007 at 9:06 am
listen to LAST MINUTE LETTER.
http://www.myspace.com/lastminuteletter
September 26, 2007 at 7:09 am
man the pic is so way collllll…it looks real…but i don’t think there are sharks as big as an helicopter…do u?
October 9, 2007 at 7:27 am
it is well clever!
October 9, 2007 at 7:28 am
it is well clever! lol
October 9, 2007 at 7:31 am
i love charlotte lea xx not
October 11, 2007 at 12:39 pm
the picture is fake. when a shark attacks, it turns its body sideways so that it can bite from side to side, not up and down. you can watch any clip of a shark attack and this will prove true. so this means that this picture is fake because you will never see an attacking shark straight up and down.
October 12, 2007 at 9:39 am
its an edited picture a kid at Chester High School did it, Ive been on the kids website before
October 25, 2007 at 4:18 am
it is real!!!! i am the oak on the ladder!! it was like two months ago, lucky it just took my left foot off and severed my archillies tendent!! it was traumatic
October 25, 2007 at 4:24 am
ya.. he is telling the truth, coz i was the oak flying the chopper.. i leaned out the window and shot it twice in the back of the haed with my 9mm while it was chewing simons foot/archillies tendent.
November 5, 2007 at 6:18 am
its so real mutherfuckers…..
hahahahahahahahahaha