Photograph>> Oil Spill • The US
.jpg "BP’s altered image (R) gives the impression that the helicopter is in the air. The dashboard indicates the door was open")
In late July, BP admitted to doctoring photographs to show that BP was hard at work in a salvaging mission at the Gulf of Mexico oil spill site.
A blog identified an altered photograph on BP's website.
The website said it was a photo taken from inside a helicopter that shows vessels working near the damaged well. It appears as though the helicopter is in the air.
But the blogger zoomed in the photograph and found the helicopter was not in the air; the dashboard indicated that the door and ramp were open.
BP spokesman acknowledged the helicopter was on the deck of a vessel at the spill site. The helicopter photo is the second doctored BP image busted by bloggers in a week. Earlier, Americablog.com noticed that BP had altered an image of its crisis response centre in Houston.
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