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 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 photo was first published on a website identified as The Grassy Knoll Institute. 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 . ^[6]^[7]

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^ Shark "Photo of the Year" Is E-Mail Hoax , National Geographic , March 8, 2005. Accessed September 11, 2007.
^ "Shark Attack" . Snopes . 25 August 2001 . Retrieved 2007-08-26 .
^ 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 .
^ Cris Tovani (2004). Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12 . Stenhouse Publishers. ISBN 1-57110-376-7 .
^ "Search Results | National Library of Australia" . catalogue.nla.gov.au . Retrieved 2021-05-27 .
^ McClain, Dylan Loeb (October 7, 2002). "Compressed Data; Another Big Fish Story Comes Unraveled" . New York Times . Retrieved 2008-03-28 .
^ "Great White internet hoax drives huge sales of photo". Sunday Territorian. June 26, 2006.

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[1] Shark "Photo of the Year" Is E-Mail Hoax , National Geographic , March 8, 2005. Accessed September 11, 2007.

[snopes-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] McClain, Dylan Loeb (October 7, 2002). "Compressed Data; Another Big Fish Story Comes Unraveled" . New York Times . Retrieved 2008-03-28 .

[7] "Great White internet hoax drives huge sales of photo". Sunday Territorian. June 26, 2006.

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