Netlore Archive: Viral image purports to display a great white shark diving out of the water to bout a scuba diver dangling from a helicopter ladder.
Description: Viral image / Hoax
Circulating since: Aug. 2001
Status: Fake (see details below)
Example:
Email contributed by C. Ellis, Aug. 8, 2002:
The nameless cut-and-paste job first began circulating in August 2001, when sharks and shark bouts were very much in the news since of the widely exposed mauling of eight-year-old Jessie Abrogate off Pensacola Beach, Florida. The 2002 variant included here, circulating as a Word text with fabricated (and misspelled) caption, seemed exactly one year later.
