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Shark Week Fast Fact: Did You Know Long Island Fisherman Inspired 'Jaws'? Shark Week Fast Fact: Did You Know Long Island Fisherman Inspired 'Jaws'?
Shark Week Fast Fact: Did You Know Long Island Fisherman Inspired 'Jaws'? It's Shark Week, and if you're a Long Islander, there's something you should know -- if you don't already. Frank Mundus, a Montauk fisherman, inspired the character of Quint in Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel "Jaws," which was made into a summer movie blockbuster by Steven Speilberg.  Benchley developed the idea from reading a news report of a Long Island fisherman catching a 4,550-pound great white shark off the coast of Long Island in 1964.  Frank Mundus was a sports fisherman in Montauk who chartered out his boat Cricket II for big game fishing thrill-seekers. Mundus was bor…

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