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An image purportedly showing a large whale swimming near a big-wave surfer started circulating online in December 2015: Although several real images have captured large marine animals beneath the waves near surfers, scuba divers, and kayakers, the above-displayed image is not one of them. This picture is a piece of digital art created by Julian Herbrig. The original image of a surfer was taken by photographer Tim McKenna in Teahupoo, Tahiti, in 2006 and captured Manoa Drollet, a Billabong team rider who said that the pictured wave was one of the biggest he rode in 2006: An aerial photograph of a minke whale taken in 2005 by an Icelandic tour company was merged with the picture of Drollet to create the composite image: A comparison of the two images shows that the original surfing photograph was flipped before the whale was added in the background: This wasn't the first time that McKenna's photography has been used as the basis for a doctored image. In 2013, Deviant Art artist Chris Bennier posted the following picture: Fortunately, that image, too, was a composite.
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