Where Was Jaws Based On
The White House Started a “War on Sharks” Some Accounts Indicate the Plot of “Jaws” Was Inspired by Events That Took Place on the New Jersey Coast in 1916 (Via...
The White House started a “war on sharks” Some accounts indicate the plot of “Jaws” was inspired by events that took place on the New Jersey coast in 1916 (via History). First, a shark attacked a man, with the shark biting the man’s leg as he swam in the water.
What was Jaws based on?
Jaws is not a true story. It is based on Peter Benchley’s novel of the same name. The Jaws author had a lifelong fascination with sharks and said that he came up with the concept for the novel after reading about a great white shark that had been caught by fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964 (pictured below).
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Why is Shark Island important?
The island has been the site of drownings, shipwrecks, and at least one shark attack, when, in 1877, Australian rules footballer and cricketer George Coulthard was sitting in a boat anchored offshore and was pulled overboard by a large shark.
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