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Comment: This picture was posted on a shark attack website (link below)... it looks like it is from a movie like "Jaws". Do you know its origin?
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Two parts of the water seem to split in a straight line towards the left side, and the shading on the legs contrasts with that of the shark. I've seen this picture before. I could be wrong, but at first glance, it seems like a pretty obvious fake.
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It is definitely not a photograph of a real shark attack, because if it were, that would mean that there was a diver with a camera there to photograph the event.
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The shark is real but the surfers legs have been photoshopped in and the sharks bottom row teeth "enhanced" to make them look more fierce. And it certainly is NOT from any Jaws movie.
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Actually, I know I'm not wrong. That's a damned phony!
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Besides the obvious problems (light coming from the wrong angle for one) for a shark to eat you face first, you'd pretty much have to be swimming toward it at the moment of attack.
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I thought the most obvious problem was the lack of blood.
Plus the fact that there is no thrashing, no bubbles, no waves, no motions at all...
Plus a diver in the water photgraphing it? I don't believe there are any clear photographs of shark attacks at all; the few that have been captured on video have been compulsively scrutinized in order to learn how shark attacks work. (I watch Shark Week every year.) If someone did happen to catch a attack underwater, you'd be lucky to see many details through the blood and the froth. The footage would be extremely valuable in understanding how and why shark attacks occur. Different species attack in different ways. That appears to be a Great White - as far as I know, the only footage of a Great White attacking a person was filmed with a camcorder during a leisure boat expedition. A girl went into the water to swim and was attacked; her friend in the boat, who had been videotaping the trip at the time, captured her attack and her screams on tape.
Although the photo in the OP is an obvious fake, any real footage of a shark actually attacking a human would be extremely valuable to the scientific community because of the rarity of shark attacks, let alone footage of them.
(And yes, I realize a girl was just killed by a bull shark off the coast of Florida. While Florida has the highest rate of shark attacks worldwide, there were 12 last year. That's still rare enough that almost no footage exists of actual attacks in progress.)
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That photo is not from Jaws. It's not even a shark attack photo. It's a photo from the recent tsunami.
Somebody tied themselves to a tree when the tsunami arrived. The shark was shoved into the shoreline by the enormous waves. Sharks have to hold their mouths open to get oxygen. A huge wave pushed the shark into this person and caused them to be lodged inside the shark's mouth.
I don't think anyone here has the right to make fun of a tragic situation. The tsunami was bad enough alone. Projectile sharks only made it all worse.
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:::Groan:: B&NB ::double groan:: But funny nonetheless..
Chimera, this year on Shark Week, guess who is hosting? Yep, The two from Mythbusters. This weeks shows will all be about busting untruths about sharks..
It's going to be a good one.
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Well, that certainly is a big brute! And, such a clear photo, too. Lucky that boy was bled out prior to the attack.
Love the touch of the surfboard cuff on the ankle. Very cute.
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To me, it looks like a photo of a real shark with some rendered (Using a program like Poser or something similar) legs added to its mouth.
The original photo was either very narrow, or had a lot of other fish or who-knows-what cluttering the image, because a lot of the water looks cloned or painted over.
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Besides the things everyone else has said, sharks don't simply eat people. I've been interested in sharks for a long time, and virtually all shark attacks are from either blood in the water, whereupon the shark smells it and attacks (and it's got to be a significant amount of blood; sharks have sensitive noses, but not that good) or has mistaken the human for an animal. In the latter case, the shark will usually back off after one bite. This is especially the case with great whites; some sharks will eat virtually anything and tiger sharks are the most notorious for this, but great whites aren't. Anyway, a great white is so endangered that you practically have to go looking for one.
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quote:Originally posted by Cervus: as far as I know, the only footage of a Great White attacking a person was filmed with a camcorder during a leisure boat expedition. A girl went into the water to swim and was attacked; her friend in the boat, who had been videotaping the trip at the time, captured her attack and her screams on tape.
I watched that too and I (kinda) wish I hadn't. It wasn't especially gory, but the scream when the shark bit down on her leg was was so "real" that I can't get it out of my head.
As for the OP, I agree there is not nearly enough blood, thrashing etc.
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Well as fate would have it I walked past a Hot Topic today and there in the front of the store was this T-shirt. Apparently its some sort of band t-shirt.
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well i vote fake just like everyone else does.
but if the actually focus of the picture is from the shirt then you can see where the shark was photochopped from and where the water was cut and put together
or i'm wrong
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