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.
