And you think your having a bad day at work!

Everybody has a bad day at work now and then. I try to place such days in perspective as much as I can, and this picture always helps me with doing that. It is accompanied with the following text "Although this looks like a picture taken from a Hollywood movie, it is in fact a real photo, taken near the South African coast during a military exercise by the British Navy." It looks pretty real, and you would take your day at work any time instead of switching places with the scuba diver that is dangling from the helicopter ladder.

But when you look closely at the bridge in the background it should look familiar to many people. And not because of that bridge being build at the South African Coast. It is the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco in the background.

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA
US National Park Service Photo

So the image is a fake. Many thanks at this point to About.com for explaining this. The photo is actually a composite of two different photos.

Photo 1: A U.S. Air Force photo (inverted) of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during a rescue diver training session in San Francisco Bay.

HH-60G Pave Hawk Helicopter - Photo by Lance Cheung
U.S. Air Force Photo

Photo 2: A still shot of a great white shark breaching the ocean surface by acclaimed underwater photographer Charles Maxwell.

Great White Breaching - Photo by Charles Maxwell
© 2000 Charles Maxwell, Underwater Video Services