Helicopter Shark
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Helicopter Shark is a composition of two photographs that gives the impression that a Great White shark is leaping out of the water attacking either a special forces helicopter or the military personnel that is climbing a suspended ladder attached to the helicopter. The photo was widely ciculated via an email in 2001. The email in question was usually written in the following form:
AND YOU THINK YOUR [sic] HAVING A BAD DAY AT WORK !!
It has been nominated by National Geographic as "THE photo of the year".
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. There are no known sightings of Great White sharks in the San Francisco Bay area.
