That's pretty easy with photoshop. ... but an actual artist wouldn't have left the cruft attached to the hull of the ship image.
It was real and documented by the BBC. It's a mirage. The ship is actually beyond the horizon. See the big red BBC logo?
I saw the BBC. And, your description is really interesting! I didn't have no idea what section of BBC published this. BBC has a sense of humor, discusses conspiracies, publishes art photos, etc. But, I sure wouldn't have guessed that description!
Images of what appears to be a hovering ship have been captured as the result of a rare optical illusion off the coast of England. David Morris took a photo of the ship near Falmouth, Cornwall. BBC meteorologist David Braine said the "superior mirage" occurred because of "special atmospheric conditions that bend light". He said the illusion is common in the Arctic, but can appear "very rarely" in the UK during winter. Mr Morris said he was "stunned" after capturing the picture while looking out to sea from the hamlet of Gillan https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-56286719 A similar example
Classic Fata Morgana! Love it! I've witnessed these on the ocean, but the one that blew me away was one really hot day in the San Fernando Valley. Temps were like 110, it was late afternoon, and as I was driving south headed back home, something looked "off". The mountains in front of me looked taller. I've driven this road hundreds of times, the southern range of the Santa Monica mnts is maybe at best about 200 ft above the valley floor, but the mountains appeared twice as tall as that. I shook my head not believing what I was seeing, but as I drove closer to the mirage it just disappeared. I wish I would have taken a picture of it.
Its either a photoshop or a digital image error (similar to when google maps connects two lines that dont connect irl). The keel of the boat is missing at the waterline (almost certainly because the boat is still in the water).
I've seen something similar out near El Mirage lake bed. BTW, many many moons ago, I lived near Parthenia and the 405 in Van Nuys - right by the old Busch Gardens.
Oh yeah! North Hills / Panorama City. I used to live in Van Nuys too, on Sherman Way. Were you around when they used to do air shows at VNY?
, Oh wow! We were practically neighbors. I was there back around 1983-89. I don't remember air shows but I just might not have known about them. I worked at most of the hospitals in the area [worked on mobile CAT Scanners and MRI units]. But I spent a great deal of time at Kaiser Panorama City as one of our units was based there. Trivia: Do you remember when Richard Pryor set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine and ran down the street while still on fire? That was Parthenia Street. He said you can't believe how fast white people get out of the way when a black guy is running down the street on fire! LOL!
Yeah! Although my time in the central part of the valley was in the 90s. That Fata Morgana I saw occurred on Tampa Ave.
I think the Fata Morgana you saw also comes under the heading of "looming" Here's a great one. Apparently it is from the Farmer's Almanac and verified.
Then what do you propose might have happened to the keel? ...are or you just joking around? (Im prone to missing such things)
This was witnessed by many people and published by the BBC. And similar events have been witnessed many times. It is also well understood by 18th century science. It is an image of a ship on the water beyond the horizon produced by what is called a "superior mirage" and generally called a Fata Morgana. It is the result of unique temperature conditions and is explained in the link below. https://skybrary.aero/articles/fata-morgana#:~:text=A superior mirage occurs when,object, hence the name superior. Mirages like this have killed people who are lost in the desert, at sea, or even in places like the arctic. They look ahead and see what looks like help just ahead. But it is really some very distant object tricking them. You can even see entire cities that aren't there.
