liberato
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The ony thing real are the Force Fins. :sigh:
Well, since this photo is making the rounds again and this thread got revived momentarily, let me add that it is a California Air National Guard HH-60G Pave Hawk (similar to the Army's Black Hawk but twice as expensive with all the extra electronic gear and refueling probe) with the 129th Rescue Wing out of Moffett Field doing a "low-and-slow" as part of pararescue team training just outside San Francisco Bay. And, as the National Geographic site mentioned, the breeching South African white shark is by Charles Maxwell.
There are so many JPEG compresion artifacts in the composite picture that you can't really tell from a technical (zooming the pixels) standpoint it is doctored. Fortunately, from the absurd standpoint most immediately got it.
One wonders why the perpetrator did not reverse the shark instead because, since the bridge is immediately identifiable as the Golden Gate Bridge (is there any other bridge painted in iron oxide primer?), locals will recognize the rocky terrain as the north side of the bridge which is now improbably on the south side. Although a white shark stomping ground is nearby, the radical breaching reveals it as a non-local; a South African "Air Jaws." And finally, the reversal would cause anyone remotely familiar with military helicopters to notice the refueling probe is on the wrong side of the HH-60G.
Well, since this photo is making the rounds again and this thread got revived momentarily, let me add that it is a California Air National Guard HH-60G Pave Hawk (similar to the Army's Black Hawk but twice as expensive with all the extra electronic gear and refueling probe) with the 129th Rescue Wing out of Moffett Field doing a "low-and-slow" as part of pararescue team training just outside San Francisco Bay. And, as the National Geographic site mentioned, the breeching South African white shark is by Charles Maxwell.
There are so many JPEG compresion artifacts in the composite picture that you can't really tell from a technical (zooming the pixels) standpoint it is doctored. Fortunately, from the absurd standpoint most immediately got it.
One wonders why the perpetrator did not reverse the shark instead because, since the bridge is immediately identifiable as the Golden Gate Bridge (is there any other bridge painted in iron oxide primer?), locals will recognize the rocky terrain as the north side of the bridge which is now improbably on the south side. Although a white shark stomping ground is nearby, the radical breaching reveals it as a non-local; a South African "Air Jaws." And finally, the reversal would cause anyone remotely familiar with military helicopters to notice the refueling probe is on the wrong side of the HH-60G.
