[longshadow]

Sharpening and compression do strange things to areas having little detail. Maybe the photo has been tampered with, but I can't make that call.

Yeah, it's indeterminate without access to an uncompressed image. But there sure are lots of odd things about this picture.

[js1138]

The oddest thing is that Kerry claims it is the crew of one boat. It will be interesting to get to the bottom of that one.