Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Frank Mundus (October 21, 1925 – September 10, 2008) was a fisherman and charter captain based in Montauk, New York who is said to be the inspiration for the character Quint in the book and movie Jaws. [1] [2] He started out as a shark hunter but later became a shark
English: Title: Frank Mundus, shark hunting, Montauk Point, [Long Island] Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: 28 June 1978. Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-02555 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
It tells the story of a large great white shark that preys upon a small Long Island resort town and the three men who attempt to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he read about the exploits of Frank Mundus, a shark fisherman from Montauk, New York, in 1964. Doubleday commissioned Benchley to write the ...
In 1964, he read an item in a newspaper about a charter fisherman, Frank Mundus, who harpooned an estimated 4,500-pound great white shark off Long Island, and the idea for the book's plot was born ...
The craze for shark fishing off Montauk was encouraged in the 1970s by local boat operator Frank Mundus who often was reported in stories as the source for the character Quint in the movie Jaws. [8] Mundus caught a 4,500-pound (2,041 kg) great white shark by harpoon and a 3,427-pound (1,554 kg) great white shark by rod and reel.
A Bay Area photographer captures juvenile white sharks "smiling" in the warm waters of Monterey Bay.
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.
Father and son Frank and Mike Pitten were summering in Scituate, Massachusetts when a great white shark swam under their boat. The two were stunned. "I looked at Michael and I was like you know ...