Photo Fake

[tyler811]

I saw this on a message board website. Is this photo real?


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[Modeps]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/surfer.asp

 

[Kanalua]

real....it's a dolphin...they do that kind of thing all the time...
damn it...one minute too slow...

 

[Spooner]

always rely on your snopes

 

[Jpark]

i've had dolphins do that to me when i was surfing at the outer banks in nc. kinda startling at first but is pretty fun after you realize they're dolphins and not sharks.

 

[SeminoleMarine]

From Snopes.com:

Claim: Photograph shows a surfer's close encounter with a lurking shark.

Status: False.

Origins: The photograph displayed above is indeed real, but it doesn't depict the hair-raising scene most viewers think it does.

This picture was taken by photographer Kurt Jones on 9 April 2003 at Surfrider Beach in Malibu, one of California's premier surfing beaches. But as the version of the photograph posted on the web indicates, however, the ominous-looking finned creature lurking just beneath the surface of the waves is a dolphin (possibly a bottlenose), not a shark.

A subsequent photograph of the animal taken later in the day demonstrates conclusively that it was in fact a dolphin.

http://www.surfshooter.com/DolphinInfo.html

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: jpark932
i've had dolphins do that to me when i was surfing at the outer banks in nc. kinda startling at first but is pretty fun after you realize they're dolphins and not sharks.

Yeah, they're great! It's amazing how friendly and intelligent these things are. I had them lifting up my board on slow waves

 

[tyler811]

Thanks everyone, I have seen this before in Florida but the picture just did not look right. Thats why I brought it here to experts Thanks.