Claim: Photograph shows a surfer's close encounter with a lurking shark.
REAL PHOTOGRAPH; INACCURATE DESCRIPTION
Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2003]
Look at this! That dude's about to get munched by a shark!

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
A subsequent picture of the animal snapped later in the day by the same photographer demonstrated conclusively that it was in fact a dolphin:

Last updated: 30 December 2013