taken by South African photographer Charles Maxwell, into a picture of a USAF helicopter hovering

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 has been nominated by National Geographic as "THE photo of the year".

National Geographic had not nominated it as "photo of the year."

But in 2005 National Geographic did publish an article debunking the photo as a hoax.