(Pic) Shark Photographed Jumping Over Surfers

News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:16 AM EDT

Article Source: local6.com

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A Central Florida photographer captured a one-in-a-million photo of a shark jumping out of the water near the heads of surfers.

Photographer Kem McNair snapped the photo of the black tip shark jumping out of the water near the surfers in the waters off New Smyrna Beach. The men were seemingly oblivious to the shark's presence....

Shark Jumping Over Surfers

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newsguru

Maybe it's just me, but I expected to literally to see a shark jumping over the surfers heads. A dramatic photo nonetheless.

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5 votes

#1 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:15 AM EDT

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Jay Butler

It's a horrible headline. They should have said that the shark was jumping near surfers.

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5 votes

#1.1 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:48 PM EDT

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Robert Blevins - AB of Seattle

I won't post the link here, but I just did an article that consists of five similar photoshopped images. They're funny. These guys DON'T suck at photoshop either, as the saying goes.

As far as the image for THIS article, I blew it up and looked at it. There are hints of possible alteration, but without higher resolution, I can't tell for sure.

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3 votes

#1.2 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:11 AM EDT

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play

If it's real, it is jumping above the surfer in the background.
clipped to sportsvine.

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1 vote

#1.3 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:57 AM EDT

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Dubbya R

Robert Blevins - AB of Seattle-

"I won't post the link here, but I just did an article that consists of five similar photoshopped images."

I'd like to see that....where can it be found?

As for this shark, since this is not unusual behavior for them when they chase fish, I don't know why anyone would bother faking it. But worth verifying....what are the hints you mention?. It does look like a Blacktip, appears to be female, well behind the second surfer............certainly no threat to the surfers.

Not that I wouldn't reflexively soil the water if I saw it jump near me.

Thanks for posting this newsguru! I find the 'men in grey suits' interesting.

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2 votes

#1.4 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:32 PM EDT

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newsguru

Robert, I know some people disagree, but this is a community... feel free to post the links here. Always welcome here.

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2 votes

#1.5 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:08 PM EDT

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babin

It's Super Shark!!!!!!!

I'm glad they got this photo; finally confirming that sharks DO exist. I knew it.

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2 votes

#2 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:40 AM EDT

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greenguy

I wish he would have gotten a better shot. Black-tipped sharks aren't particularly aggressive so the swimmers didn't really have anything to fear.

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2 votes

#3 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:20 PM EDT

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douglasq

Was one of them Fonzi?

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4 votes

#4 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:41 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

The ultimate "jump the shark" photo we can use for whenever any tv series reaches that point !

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3 votes

#5 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:10 PM EDT

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JoeGrinD

In Soviet Russia, the sharks jump you!

Sorry...it had to be said.

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1 vote

#6 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:35 PM EDT

{"commentId":2188673,"authorDomain":"keggerlord-1"}

Jay Keggerlord

I recall a comedian once saying that surfers are like Triscuits for sharks. Looks like this one was looking for the hors d'ouevre tray. :)

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4 votes

#7 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:50 PM EDT

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Jimi M

Was this pic submitted by the same guy who shut down them beaches at Martha's last weekend.
He had everybody seeing sharks.
Its hard to believe snapshots these days and from a article I just read here on news vine anytime in history.

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1 vote

#8 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:27 PM EDT

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Robert Blevins - AB of Seattle

Jimmie M asks:

'Was this pic submitted by the same guy who shut down them beaches at Martha's last weekend?
He had everybody seeing sharks.'

No. That was Richard Dreyfuss, I think.

(Dom...dom....dom....dom....)

'You're going to need a bigger boat...'

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3 votes

#8.1 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:57 PM EDT

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Michael Thomas Warren

4 out of 5 surfers return unbitten by sharks

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1 vote

#9 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:51 PM EDT

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Michael Thomas Warren

That fish was way off in the background, and you can't even tell if it was a shark, might have been a porpoise or dolphin. Those fish often jump and play around surfers.

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1 vote

#10 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:52 PM EDT

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Meggy

Porpoises and dolphins aren't fish. XD As marine mammals, they also have quite obviously different arrangements of their fins and their tail, making it clear that this is a fish, not a mammal.

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3 votes

#10.1 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:20 PM EDT

{"commentId":2191247,"authorDomain":"jimmym"}

Jimi M

Maybe it was one of them there Flying Fish you hear so much about.
I thought I saw some of them there Flying Fish on Jock Q-Stow once.

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2 votes

#10.2 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:31 PM EDT

{"commentId":2191162,"authorDomain":"sunnyshine"}

Meggy

Here I was hoping for a big ol' Great White. Or a tiger or nurse, at the very least. I agree, a very misleading title, and disappointing. Shouldn't be allowed, it's misrepresentation. And I agree, he ought to find a better picture for his report, as the black-tip reef sharks are hardly notorious for their man-eating tendencies.

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2 votes

#11 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:22 PM EDT

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MinnieApolis

Frankly, my dears, this looks like a Photoshop job to me. I am no Photoshop pro, but this is just too unreal looking. Now maybe if there was some video footage along with it, then I would say it's legit. Maybe we can get Tedd or one of the members of the Photog group over here to take a look, but to me the whole series of shots just looks too posed and artificial.
Will this rank with the other faked shots like the Iranian missiles?

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1 vote

#12 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:49 PM EDT

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Meggy

It does look like it could be fake. My only problem is that, if it were faked, wouldn't they try to put a more impressive shark there? Or at least try and position the shark over the surfers as the title suggests? That isn't to say it's not faked, just... you'd think they'd at least go for faking an interesting photo.

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2 votes

#12.1 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:07 PM EDT

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douglasq

If I were faking it, I'd make the shark wink at the camera in mid-air.

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2 votes

#12.2 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 2:08 PM EDT

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Leota

I wonder how this person got so many shots. That shark must have been jumping for awhile...

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1 vote

#12.3 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:39 PM EDT

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Reidh

Bogus

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1 vote

#13 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:50 PM EDT

{"commentId":2193761,"authorDomain":"caroaber"}

caroaber

Get that amphibious terrorist out of our waters.

Put him on the no-swim list.

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1 vote

#14 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:55 PM EDT

{"commentId":2200640,"authorDomain":"peevely"}

d original hater.

Heyyyyy Quick call the President ,it's a Weapon of "Splash" Destruction...the U.S army gotta Invade the Ocean and wipe it out.

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1 vote

#15 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:17 PM EDT

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Carole R

This is really strange. I have never known a shark to jump out of water unless it was heading for a target to bite. I might be wrong but is this photo for real?

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1 vote

#16 - Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:05 PM EDT

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thepikey

It's not a photoshop job it's real. I'm a surfer who lives in South Florida. This is either a spinner shark or black tip. They chase the bait fish running near shore. They do jump out of the water chasing fish. I've seen it up close myself when surfing lots of time and I get out of the water fast.

New Smyrna Beach is the shark bite capital of the world. These sharks bite feet and hands all the time up there.

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3 votes

#17 - Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:02 PM EDT

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Carole R

Thank you the pikey.

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1 vote

#17.1 - Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:47 PM EDT

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lauhal

Guess who is going to New Symrna Beach in a couple weeks? *sigh* I go every year in the summer.

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3 votes

#18 - Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:29 PM EDT

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Dubbya R

Bring a slow friend!

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1 vote

#18.1 - Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:15 PM EDT

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