Here's a link to the shark photo, for those being brought here by Google searches :

BRUCE BITES BIRD BOGUS :
Shark "Photo of the Year" Is E-Mail Hoax (Stentor Danielson, August 15, 2002, National Geographic News)

A photograph that has been circulating on the internet showing a shark leaping out of the water to attack a helicopter, is a fake. The composite image, which claims to be National Geographic's "Photo of the Year," was spliced together from a U.S. Air Force photo taken near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and a photo of a shark from South Africa.

Still a cool photo (they've got it posted if you follow the link above).

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 19, 2002 2:17 PM