Dad thought it was a good Idea to teach us to waterski off the port of LongBeach CA after id seen this movie. I learned to get up simply to get out and on top of water.😂 Definitely fully understand that you are not in your domain anylonger.
My dad taught me how to fish commercially for sharks in the 70s and 80s. He said you should never trust any shark no matter the size or species. If it's got teeth it will bite. I stayed in the boat. Always.
So, anyone from the 90’s may relate: Watching this all of a sudden I want to go to the kitchen and grab a box of Keebler Munch Em’s cheddar flavor. I’ve definitely seen this as a child, multiple times. It’s weird and fascinating how the mind has memories attached to scents and tastes. Jaws wants to eat us and all I want is a giant box of cheddar Munch Em’s. My favorite extinct snack. Starburst Licorice. Miss those too. Just want to watch Step by Step and eat Munch Em’s now.
Rodney Fox, and Ron and Valerie Taylor all started out as Shark Hunters, and then came round to the other side and worked tirelessly for their entire adult lives conservating Sharks. And have done great things for the Aquatic universe.
I remember this when I was a kid. I would have seen Jaws in 81 on UK TV when I was 7. This documentary was 84, remember it clearly and would have been when I first learned that Great Whites mistake surfers for seals. What struck me the most was that footage of the sharks feeding on the hanging meat. Seeing the eyes roll back and seeing the teeth move forward was far more a terrifying image than anything in Jaws and of course was reality.
Omg yes. I was 6 in 1981. I remember being afraid to swim in my 5ft swimming pool in my backyard!! Lol. My older cousin would go sing the jaws background music while I was in by myself n I would cry. Lol.. I was a wimp. .but it was just that scary too me. When I was 12 I read the book n it was 10x better
It's incredible how many of us remember watching this as a child. (I was 12). It seems most of us recorded it and watched it over and over! It was at a very difficult time in my young life and this programme brought me some comfort and escapism I guess. 👍
Yes I remember it too! I got a couple of al giddings videos later on in life, but by the time this was shown, I had the first two jaws films on video, and had seen jaws 3d at the cinema, brilliant when you saw it in the cinema, bloody awful on video without the 3d effects!!! Haha!! Love eternal people
Mistaken identity is as dated as the film used to record this video. Electroreception helps sharks locate prey just before they bite it, as their eyes cannot see the area near their mouths. Some sharks use this sense to locate buried prey. As an apex predator they know the difference between a man and a seal. They may not be smart like dolphins but their instinct and senses used to hunt it’s prey are unmistaken. Another example of scientists being wrong was great white being extinct in the Mediterranean during this time. 3 years after this was made they found a 23fter in Malta and learned there were an abundance of them there, locals believing they were there to breed
Yes the mistaken identity theory is getting old. I’m writing this in June of 2023, and there have been 3 instances in less than a year of a shark attacking and eating a person. Since everyone has a camera in their packet these days, all three were recorded and shown on TH-cam.
That movie came out when I was in the 6th grade. It changed everything at the beach. It has never been the same. All of the kuds used to swim out so far that you could barely see people on the coastline. Not so after Jaws.
show me the way to go home I'm tired & I wanna go to bed I had a little drink about an hour ago and it's gone right to my head🍻🍻 where ever I may roam by land or sea or boat *Bruce aka JAWS* takes the lead 💥💥boom💥💥bang💥💥 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈 *Booom, bash, boom boom
Holy crap VCR. I have Not watched a movie on the VCR since 2013 I believe. And it was Lord of the Rings Two Towers at my dads house in Savannah. The difference is very "clear."
@Lily Gazou says only about 5 conservative leaders (and it's the "responsible adults who are supposed to be back in the room" who's pushing this demented crap. Most political leaders have been captured by the wokey mind virus, and it's only making an entire people distrust each other more & more. Something just gutta give??
Wow, I recorded this off the telly (onto a Scotch VHS tape!) back in the mid 80s and watched it loads of times as a young teen! Crazily, I remember it pretty much word for word! (I also had a pretty ropey pirate copy of Back to The Future on the same tape!)
Exactly the same here. I think it was Jan 1984. I also recorded a bit of the programme before which had the Thompson Twins singing it out. Strange the things you remember !
I watched anything ocean related as a kid. I remember taping this and watching it over and over. I wanted to travel to Steinhart so bad to see Sandy. Strangely the diver Leroy French discussed by Al Giddings is a relative of my wife. I’d heard bits of that story from her grandmother and father but to hear Giddings tell it first hand was more frightening than I’d ever heard.
I haven't seen this in about 20+ years since my old Beta copy was lost to the wrath of ages, and yet I can remember virtually every word McCosker says just by hearing him talk. Incredible. This version is slightly different than the one I remember though. The narrator is different and the footage has some different arrangements. Either way, this is aces.
A little shakin' tenderizin' down ya go. I'll catch this bird for ya, but it ain't gonna be easy. I'll find 'em for 3, catch 'em and kill 'em for 10. Thank you Mr. Quint.
Watched this documentary on Discovery Channels Shark Week (when it was still good and actually a channel of education) back in like 93 as a kid…great memories seeing it again.
20:31 let me get this straight. These guys were out there in the fucking water at the Farallon Islands. Must have a death wish. I've never heard anybody choosing to go in the water out there. Maybe back then in the 1960s it wasn't as well known as a shark habitat as it is now. But holy shit. All you'd have to do is take a look around and see all the seals to know there's going to be great whites there. His friend was lucky he didn't die and he's lucky he didn't get attacked. I mean lucky lucky lucky.
Great documentary , glad the sharks are making a comeback . Remember your more likely to get murdered by a coconut , a cow or a bee than you are a great white shark 😂😂😂😂
I watched a documentary on a canadian who goes to kamchuka every year to raise orphin grizzly cubs. At the start it said in the last 100 Years 91 people had been killed by a grizzly bear but 100 000 Grizzley's had been killed by man. Disgraceful
Sadly the 🦈s are in trouble due to shark fin soup and fear! 🥺☹. Great are my favorite also. I printed off a Great White Shark coloring page > which on my refrigerator, I have a Great White Shark bank and I made a paper mache Great White Shark pup.
Boy have we come A LONG WAY in Marine Biology. In terms of understanding White Sharks and there behavior. I respect what this biologist was saying about them. But he still "paints" them in a bad light as blood thirsty killers. When in reality there doing what they've done for MILLIONS of years with great success. And that simply is TO SURVIVE. The ocean is an extremely inhospitable place to call home. Therefore, what lives in it must be able to cope with ALL it's challenges day in and day out. Sharks were made just for that purpose to cope and sit on top of the food chain IN THERE ENVIRONMENT. It's no different then Lions on the Serengeti doing the SAME EXACT THING. We go into those elements which we were not made to be in. Then yes were lower on the food chain and looked at as prey. Even though we aren't there "staple diet" when you live in such inhospitable conditions. Would you pass up an easy meal...? I don't think so...(g)
And yet they are still using clickbait bulshit fear-mongering when it comes to sharks. Discovery channel is supposed to be helping educate and yet they're titled killer Jaws murderer blah blah blah.. it's pathetic
@@carlasullivan3637 listen, using your instead of you're, there, their, they're, etc can bug me a little too, but this isn't a classroom. We aren't getting tested on ourgrammar. This is a social media comment section. You know what means. Who gives a fuck? Do you really not have that much of a life that you feel the need to bitch about something like this on social media? I mean some people like me, use talk-to-text because it's faster and my phone will constantly use the wrong one. sometimes I catch it sometimes I don't but I know the difference between all those words. So I'm not going to fucking cry like a little bitch if someone uses the wrong one. Maybe they did it by accident maybe they don't know the difference or maybe it was just their phone. Either way quit being a cunt
Who else noticed that Author Peter Benchley is the Newscaster on the beach in Jaws who say's ''There is a Cloud over Amity, a Cloud in the shape of a Killer Shark''
You know what's funny haha I hear people say that, and yet my girlfriend and I went to the beach at night time where they were showing Jaws on to blow up screens. One of them was facing the beach and the other one was facing away from the beach and my girlfriend and I watched the movie from inside the water at night time. And yet peopleactually we're scared to go in the water after it we were in the water during it haha
This is why I like rivers that are at most five feet deep. You get an inner tube. You float down. You get out alive. It’s gorgeous and no one gets eaten today. The ocean is fun for getting seashells, praying, looking at the sun over the water, and watching to see if a shark is hungry today so you can scream and say I told you respect nature safely from an umbrella with a 🍹 drink and a book.
Me and my dad watched this when it came out. My dad caught sharks for a living. He had a commercial boat and fished rod and reel. He used to long line, but it got too expensive. I went out with my dad on se etal yrips and got to see a lot of crazy stuff. I miss it.
you can make a brick pool in the sea it's been done in scotland for 100s of yrs with no effect to marine life & everyone's safe we didn't have great whites then but some have been seen recently since we have high numbers of all types of seals, I'm amazed they're not more common in uk waters , I don't mind great whites but not bull or tiger sharks their just to unpredictable & attack everything & anything is prey to them , we have 30/35 ft basking sharks here but they only eat plankton which is fine by me I still wouldn't want to see one if I was in a canoe or a small dingy , After seeing jaws as a kid i don't ever go into the sea here or abroad while in tenerife on a boat trip people went swimming there were dolphins & pilot whales next to our boat all I could hear in my head was the music from jaws I paddled my legs for a few mins that was enough for me
This is like watching a documentary about Republicans vs Democrats!!!! Yes sharks need to be protected, they're not evil animals, they just do what they were born to do but i have to laugh at these shark experts complain about JAWS when that movie single handedly saved thousands of lives over the decades just because of fear to go into the water!!!!
The movie Jaws as based on the region of northeast coast was the scene of the shark attack in which a man was killed while swimming and then the shark went up the river or canal and attacked a boy or two, and a man who tried to save a victim. This was in early 1900s.
I would have been more bugged by poor Pippin being eaten by the shark than humans getting eaten. I have a brilliant understanding with the sharks, i do not go into their home and get bitten or eaten, and they do not come into mine. So easy and safe.
Die Surfers wissen das die von unter wie eine Robbe aussehen, aber trozdem gehen die da rein wo der grosse Weisse Hai ist, allein der gedanke macht einen schon angst, das ist einfach nur krass.
I tried to read Peter's book and it is not that great, I remember it being very disjointed, with very little on the great white in fact it takes too long to get into any action. As a book, it is a very mundane novel to read. The film was a great improvement on the novel. Thankfully we have a lot more respect and appreciation for how essential these sharks really are to the Earth ecosystem as a whole, thanks to Peter's campaign to preserve and protect this species and scientists' valuable research in understanding the Great White's role in maintaining the healthy oceans of Earth. And it is not even the most dangerous ocean predator. great rival the Orca ('Killer whale'), is equally as efficient at hunting and it is very effective because of its ability to hunt in packs as an organized social unit.
@@gagaforgluing8247 I read it this year and I would say it's just totally different than the movie so I was reading it and having the film scenes go through my mind whilst doing so. But as a standalone book, if I hadn't had seen the movie,I liked it
Read the book last year and it felt so different after loving the movie for so long. Quint was a charmless bore as compared to the colorful and twisted avenger he is in the film, and his death, while symbolic of Captain Avery, was just pathetic. I’m not saying I hated the book and I think it’s a great read, it just doesn’t have the charm and lightning that the film had, which Spielberg was very lucky to capture for the world to see.
He ended up saying the magic words stay out of the ocean! No way should we ever eliminate the great white sharks just because we want to recreate in their home! Our home in on land and the sharks home is the ocean well guess what if you want to swim or surf or dive you are just going to have to put up with the baddest fish in the ocean and you could be it's lunch! I grew up learning to swim in the bayou's of Louisiana and after my cousin lost his foot to a bull shark I gave up swimming in salt water! Not once did our family Blame the shark for doing what comes naturally! So any time you go to the beach and you think about going for a swim just remember you aren't alone!
I was sorta caught up in that macho bloodlust in my early twenties. Never actually went out after them, but that fantasy of catching and killing a shark was strong as a result of that book and movie. It was kind of a hysteria that gripped people. Thankfully, the experts did a great job of putting the proper perspective on things. But that "kill them before they kill us" mentality was really ingrained in the culture at that time
Peter Benchley probably got a leg up with his book because he was from a famous Yankee writing family. The book really didn’t set this stuff off, Spielberg’s movie did. And the killing of sharks had taken place for a long while, famously off Montauk on Long Island by a man named Frank Mundus, who owned a charter fishing boat (there are 2 or 3 books out about him that are worth your time, fascinating character!). Also Benchley knew about the shark attacks in New Jersey around 1914-1916, and pretty sure he knew about Mundus. Mundus always said he was the inspiration for Quint.
Thank you very much for posting this, I've been looking for this for a while since I no longer have my old VHS copy taped from TV that I watched to death as a child in the 80's. A really excellent documentary, almost everything I learned about sharks as a child was from Dr John McCosker's appearance in this programme.
The Jaws movie scared the shit out of me 😂😂 I first seen the movie on vhs in 1986 or 1987 around the age of 4 or 5 years old.But i remember it vividly.Then after i got over the fear of the great white shark i was mesmerized by that big shark 😂😂 My mom bought me a toy great white shark.The Jaws 2 poster was hanging on my wall.I bought a shark book at P.Dalton's book store.I even try to turn my g.i. joes and ninja turtle toys into Brody,Richard Dreyfuss,and that one shark hunter guy that helped brody and dreyfuss in that boat 😂😂 i had a wild imagination 😂😂 Hopefully they will come out with a Jaws 5 movie or a remake of Jaws 1 in the year 2024 era that would cool.Good video tho 👍
I watched Jaws for the first time as a 8 year old so would have been around 86. It’s terrified me to this day along with Great Whites! Although I understand them more now! However, even for £1 million you could not get me to stick my head fully inside that frozen great white!! I would even wanna touch it lol!!
At 37:21, the shark’s tail bumped another one i can almost hear the bumped shark say: «Hey Carl, watch where you’re sticking that thing. Oh... sorry George. Lol
Thankfully there haven't bn 2 many idiots over the years that have attempted 2 maintain a White Shark in captivity!! Give this guy the benefit of the doubt seein as this was nearly 40 yrs ago! Lol
While scuba diving north of San Juan Island had a group or seals became accustomed to us diving. I started doing multiple twists an turns to dance around seals enjoying our dance. Then 1 dive all seals around me immediately bolted away from me. Then a Sea lion appeared around me. Scared me for second time underwater. Lin Cod was my first real scare for my life. I thought blue shark dead. I pulled his tail trying to get him from ghost net attacked too rocks. I found him still alive. I pushed an pulled him back an forth too move water across his gills until he came too an pulled his tail from my hand.
I cant for the life of me,understand what's with the sharks???..its an overgrown.fish that eats humans,I'm sick of hearing about how they get a bad deal,and people should love them!..I hate them,they're dangerous and nobody needs to be around them,and of story!!
In the movie Jaws the guy at the beach throwing the stick to his dog then all the sudden he can't find the dog that didn't make sense I mean he'll be keeping an eye on the dog
Maybe someone stopped to talk to him. when I take my dog to the beach, I will throw the ball away down the beach. And if I'm with someone or with my girlfriend I will turn and talk to them while I wait for him to bring it back. He's a good dog and wouldn't run off. so if he turned to talk to someone for 30 seconds and the dog got snatched up and could easily have happened
This was a very well made documentary. Not many improvements have been gained in 39 years of study, apart knowing a bit more about this MAJESTIC Lord of the sea's habits and behavior. The show still has a bit of that mystic portray charachterizing the Animal, but it was normal back then, and it is true the way we still perceive the Sharks even nowadays, the show doesn't take a 100% WWF side but is also 100% away from the fear and killing spree of post-jaws era. Good to listen to Peter Benchley. I am going to share this video to many friends. ps Hope the lady in the Midwest is safe by now ;-) THANK YOU!!
This is much better than most "documentaries" on sharks made today. I loved the Camera angle on the real great white - gives you a feel of the massive size of the shark.
I have tremendous respect for John McCosker. A brilliant expert in the study. This is but one snap shot in time. The learning base has grown and evolved since that time but his reasoning is always sound with what is available.
The whole "sharks dont internationally attack humans" argument is just plain stupid. Like sharks should discriminate, why should it? Because we have feelings? Its a nature designed killing machine, and fact is, a prey is a prey..period. More people are killed by cars because there are more drivers than swimmers and surfers..fact
Maverick Ive been to Indonesian waters meeting fishermen who would talk about how their fish cage traps with Car tire weights would get messed up and have all six tires chewed off only to find pieces of it inside a tiger they caught.. So if they think human meat is so bad and hard to digest, talk to me again about how car tires taste better and digest better. Spare me the Nat Geo argument you moron.. Im not here to make a villain out of sharks. Im saying tigers are tigers and whites are whites
@@TheSpecOpsMarine You're... special. Of course sharks discriminate. Most animals discriminate, just not for the reasons we do. Taste is a factor. Most sharks don't seem to enjoy eating us. This is a trend amongst many animal species. They all have their preferred prey. They have evolved to hunt and live off of that preferred prey. We do not have any natural predators. yes, some predators will attack us, but that is the exception, not the rule. As for the tigers you were talking about, that's.. a different species. Different preferences, diets, and aggression.
@@realtsavowhy would we not have any natural predators? Of course we do. Big cats, crocodilians, pythons/anacondas, wolves, bears. And rarely, but consistently, sharks. More controversially, raptors. You go into the wild without kit - you're prey.
@@catsnads01 They don't routinely hunt us. The only animal that does that is the Polar Bear, and one group of Tigers. Most other predators have learned to avoid us, and in the case of sharks, most of those are mistaken identity. Moose, deer, elephants and bison also kill humans. Would you call those our natural predators?
Yep - I’m another who recorded this in the 80s and watched it over and over and over again. It was such a part of my childhood that I vowed when I was older I would go to San Francisco seek out the Steinhart aquarium and try to meet Dr John McCosker. I’m so happy to say that when I was 40 I did travel there and I did indeed meet him and he was very gracious and an absolute Gentleman. It was a real highlight for me and an ambition attained. 😊
Is that true, about the Bull Shark? Grew up in Matawan & Holmdel NJ. When I was in 4th grade in the 70’s our school librarian told us one of the kids that was swimming that day in Matawan Creek was still alive & had a scar across his belly where the shark scrapped him. Lester & Stanley are both buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. Creepy place on its own 👻
Brilliant! Thank you so much for uploading this, I used to have it on VHS back in the day, but it got rubbed. I loved this as a kid, Jaws is my favourite film. I think Great whites are beautiful and majestic creatures, but equally terrifying as predators. So glad they released that captured white back into the wild, where it belongs.
The Great White Shark every time its caught should be killed! Bull sharks especially there are literally millions of Bull sharks. Throw tiger sharks into that also. They will eat you, cripple you or just remove a limb. And it's usually by an ambush type attack. The big argument in a shark's behalf. Is oh they just thought you were a fish. Sharks have literally pulled people off of boats, and you say they just thought you were a fish. I THINK EVERY MAN-EATING SHARK SHOULD BE KILLED OFF WHEN THEY ARE CAUGHT!!!
I wonder if this is the shark documentary I had seen on TV many years ago when it aired on a special program, called "Super Shark Weekend". Some segments definitely remind me of it. When I used to watch "Super Shark Weekend", they aired this one (if it's the right one) just before they aired "Operation: Shark Attack".
When I came to the US from Russia (Siberia) as an almost 8 year old jaws was the first movie I seen here. Of course it was old by then (I'm 31 and we got here a month before I turned 8 it was in 1999) we was dirt poor of course and had just a litte TV with the old analog dials on them and a vcr that we picked up from a goodwill drop off along with a couple tapes that was in a bag and one was jaws and the others was some preacher tapes. So we say down on the floor in our little apartment that the state provided us (we was under refugee status) for the first year we was here... we had no furniture except for 2 metal chairs and those little tables people in the 80s would use to eat on (TV tray I think it's called?) Anyhow in Russia we didn't have a TV (to poor) so we very seldom got to watch anything so it was a magical experience sitting down with my mother, father, brother and self watching a movie that we understood ZERO English and I'll never forget we was eating bananas (something we had never had nor even seen for that matter a banana) and it was the best thing I had ever tasted in my life lol.. I'll never forget that day, we had been here maybe 4-6 days at the time. The movie scared the absolute hell out of me, made me literally terrified to go to the beach later on after we started getting comfortable here and had a little money to do things. First time I went to the beach (we lived 6 miles from the beach in north east Florida) I was 10 and I wouldn't get in the water, I played in tide puddles, I was about 13 the first time I ventured out in to the surf with my dad and i wouldn't get any deeper then I could see my feet in the water so maybe like a foot deep water or so. I watched jaws literally 100s of times because it was the only movie we had and I loved it but when people would get attacked I would cover my eyes and look at it from the little slits ide make between my fingers lol. The first time I rode the ride jaws at Universal it was for my 11th bday and when the shark comes up at the side of the boat and then the boat driver gets the bomb gun I started crying lol. It was pure scared excitement.. I know it sounds silly to cry form fear from a ride but in Siberia we had nothing like that so it was totally novel experience for me.. now days I live in the keys and I'm out in salt water spear fishing all the time and have zero fear of shark... well no I fear them but only while they are trying to steal my fish I shot.. I respect them and find them amazing and beautiful creatures, bull sharks do get me a little worrisome when we are spearing fish so we really keep our eyes on them. I've seen two white sharks in my life, one about 11 feet out off marathon but we was in the boat and just watched it for a couple mins and one off the coast of Jacksonville Florida that was about 8 feet. If I was in the water and seen a white shark I think I would freeze and God only knows how I would react but I'm pretty sure I would flip out and it's all because of my fear of it from the movie as a small child. White sharks hugely fascinate me and I would absolutely love to get in a cage and see the big girls out off Africa or Australia but I really never want to see one while I'm in the water in Florida as I would be free diving and I don't know what I would do.. sorry for the long story, just speaking about a life experience that someone may enjoy reading and hopefully share their story about the movie back.
Dad thought it was a good Idea to teach us to waterski off the port of LongBeach CA after id seen this movie. I learned to get up simply to get out and on top of water.😂 Definitely fully understand that you are not in your domain anylonger.
My dad taught me how to fish commercially for sharks in the 70s and 80s. He said you should never trust any shark no matter the size or species. If it's got teeth it will bite. I stayed in the boat. Always.
Damn straight. That's a good Dad.
So, anyone from the 90’s may relate:
Watching this all of a sudden I want to go to the kitchen and grab a box of Keebler Munch Em’s cheddar flavor. I’ve definitely seen this as a child, multiple times.
It’s weird and fascinating how the mind has memories attached to scents and tastes.
Jaws wants to eat us and all I want is a giant box of cheddar Munch Em’s.
My favorite extinct snack.
Starburst Licorice. Miss those too.
Just want to watch Step by Step and eat Munch Em’s now.
Rodney Fox, and Ron and Valerie Taylor all started out as Shark Hunters, and then came round to the other side and worked tirelessly for their entire adult lives conservating Sharks. And have done great things for the Aquatic universe.
That sucks. I wish sharks no help I don't like them
True, read about it.
The pay was better.
@@7ItalianStallionYou must have such a Low IQ to drop that message.
Conversating?
Is that a word now?
I remember this when I was a kid. I would have seen Jaws in 81 on UK TV when I was 7. This documentary was 84, remember it clearly and would have been when I first learned that Great Whites mistake surfers for seals. What struck me the most was that footage of the sharks feeding on the hanging meat. Seeing the eyes roll back and seeing the teeth move forward was far more a terrifying image than anything in Jaws and of course was reality.
Omg yes. I was 6 in 1981. I remember being afraid to swim in my 5ft swimming pool in my backyard!! Lol. My older cousin would go sing the jaws background music while I was in by myself n I would cry. Lol..
I was a wimp. .but it was just that scary too me. When I was 12 I read the book n it was 10x better
I recorded it and watched it endlessly. I'm sure it was on in the January 1984.
I was also 7 in 81 and remember the family gathering round to watch the premiere on TV. All the kids were talking about it in school.
I echo Hooper's comments when he is talking to the mayor. "...All it does is swim and eat and make little sharks. It's really a miracle of evolution."
Show me way to go home, I'm tired and I wanta go to bed....lol
I had a little🍺about an hour ago and it's gone right to my🤪. Wherever I may roam by land or sea or form. You can always hear me...🎶🎶🎶
Recorded this off TV and watched it about 800 times as a kid. In my child brain, I regarded it as a 'Jaws' movie
It's incredible how many of us remember watching this as a child. (I was 12). It seems most of us recorded it and watched it over and over! It was at a very difficult time in my young life and this programme brought me some comfort and escapism I guess. 👍
I completely relate.
And I am the same age. Lol
I'm glad they adjusted the tracking wheel!😂
what happened to you as a Young man?
Yes I remember it too! I got a couple of al giddings videos later on in life, but by the time this was shown, I had the first two jaws films on video, and had seen jaws 3d at the cinema, brilliant when you saw it in the cinema, bloody awful on video without the 3d effects!!! Haha!! Love eternal people
Mistaken identity is as dated as the film used to record this video. Electroreception helps sharks locate prey just before they bite it, as their eyes cannot see the area near their mouths. Some sharks use this sense to locate buried prey. As an apex predator they know the difference between a man and a seal. They may not be smart like dolphins but their instinct and senses used to hunt it’s prey are unmistaken. Another example of scientists being wrong was great white being extinct in the Mediterranean during this time. 3 years after this was made they found a 23fter in Malta and learned there were an abundance of them there, locals believing they were there to breed
Yes the mistaken identity theory is getting old. I’m writing this in June of 2023, and there have been 3 instances in less than a year of a shark attacking and eating a person. Since everyone has a camera in their packet these days, all three were recorded and shown on TH-cam.
That movie came out when I was in the 6th grade. It changed everything at the beach. It has never been the same. All of the kuds used to swim out so far that you could barely see people on the coastline. Not so after Jaws.
show me the way to go home
I'm tired & I wanna go to bed
I had a little drink about an hour ago
and it's gone right to my head🍻🍻
where ever I may roam
by land or sea or boat
*Bruce aka JAWS* takes the lead
💥💥boom💥💥bang💥💥
🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈
*Booom, bash, boom boom
Holy crap VCR. I have Not watched a movie on the VCR since 2013 I believe. And it was Lord of the Rings Two Towers at my dads house in Savannah. The difference is very "clear."
I saw this documentary on BBC in my younger days. I never thought I would see it again. Thanks to your upload I have. Thank you so much.
What a relief to watch a real documentary without the obvious political messaging of climate change and diversity.
Thank you 1980s😊
We’re still allowed to say great white. For now.
@Lily Gazou says only about 5 conservative leaders (and it's the "responsible adults who are supposed to be back in the room" who's pushing this demented crap.
Most political leaders have been captured by the wokey mind virus, and it's only making an entire people distrust each other more & more.
Something just gutta give??
I’m still scared to get in the bath after watching jaws 😳
Wow, I recorded this off the telly (onto a Scotch VHS tape!) back in the mid 80s and watched it loads of times as a young teen! Crazily, I remember it pretty much word for word!
(I also had a pretty ropey pirate copy of Back to The Future on the same tape!)
Exactly the same here. I think it was Jan 1984. I also recorded a bit of the programme before which had the Thompson Twins singing it out. Strange the things you remember !
Pre record, not fade away?
@@MrGenedancingmachine That's the one! Great advert! 😄
YOU KEPT MY ASS OUT OF THE WATER SINCE 1975 THIS IS 2018 I WILL NOT GO IN THE WATER.
I watched anything ocean related as a kid. I remember taping this and watching it over and over. I wanted to travel to Steinhart so bad to see Sandy. Strangely the diver Leroy French discussed by Al Giddings is a relative of my wife. I’d heard bits of that story from her grandmother and father but to hear Giddings tell it first hand was more frightening than I’d ever heard.
I haven't seen this in about 20+ years since my old Beta copy was lost to the wrath of ages, and yet I can remember virtually every word McCosker says just by hearing him talk. Incredible.
This version is slightly different than the one I remember though. The narrator is different and the footage has some different arrangements. Either way, this is aces.
Same here
A little shakin' tenderizin' down ya go. I'll catch this bird for ya, but it ain't gonna be easy. I'll find 'em for 3, catch 'em and kill 'em for 10. Thank you Mr. Quint.
We all know how that ended dont we lol
We will take that...under advisement.
Watched this documentary on Discovery Channels Shark Week (when it was still good and actually a channel of education) back in like 93 as a kid…great memories seeing it again.
The explanation about that graph on that blackboard with those crossing lines meanings it’s the most unscientific thing I ever heard
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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20:31 let me get this straight. These guys were out there in the fucking water at the Farallon Islands. Must have a death wish. I've never heard anybody choosing to go in the water out there. Maybe back then in the 1960s it wasn't as well known as a shark habitat as it is now. But holy shit. All you'd have to do is take a look around and see all the seals to know there's going to be great whites there. His friend was lucky he didn't die and he's lucky he didn't get attacked. I mean lucky lucky lucky.
That fisherman's story about his business partner being attacked is spine chilling
Hell to the yes!
Al Giddings is his name.
No as much as ur pic 👎🤪👌👌😂
Since he was so close to death, I’m wondering what happened later in his life. It’s said you don’t pass until you’ve finished on Earth
@@Straxus69 thanks I’ll look him up
Great documentary , glad the sharks are making a comeback . Remember your more likely to get murdered by a coconut , a cow or a bee than you are a great white shark 😂😂😂😂
I watched a documentary on a canadian who goes to kamchuka every year to raise orphin grizzly cubs. At the start it said in the last 100 Years 91 people had been killed by a grizzly bear but 100 000 Grizzley's had been killed by man. Disgraceful
my least favorite part of jaws was when the dog pippen died I hate when dogs.die in movies
Jaquan Johnson me too!! Was the dogs name pippin, or pippet??
Pippet
Dogs name was tippet according to the subtitles
John Cornell ah sweet as yeah jst read it in the subtitles lol
I wish they had shown it. I would have loved to see it yelping and crying as it gets torn apart
Jaws got me into sharks; the Great White being my all time favorite.
Likewise. Also, pretty much insured that I will never be a surfer.
Sadly the 🦈s are in trouble due to shark fin soup and fear! 🥺☹.
Great are my favorite also. I printed off a Great White Shark coloring page > which on my refrigerator, I have a Great White Shark bank and I made a paper mache Great White Shark pup.
They are such magnificent creatures.
Boy have we come A LONG WAY in Marine Biology. In terms of understanding White Sharks and there behavior. I respect what this biologist was saying about them. But he still "paints" them in a bad light as blood thirsty killers. When in reality there doing what they've done for MILLIONS of years with great success. And that simply is TO SURVIVE. The ocean is an extremely inhospitable place to call home. Therefore, what lives in it must be able to cope with ALL it's challenges day in and day out. Sharks were made just for that purpose to cope and sit on top of the food chain IN THERE ENVIRONMENT. It's no different then Lions on the Serengeti doing the SAME EXACT THING. We go into those elements which we were not made to be in. Then yes were lower on the food chain and looked at as prey. Even though we aren't there "staple diet" when you live in such inhospitable conditions. Would you pass up an easy meal...? I don't think so...(g)
Their, there, and they're. Your grammar teacher sucked!
I don't care WHAT you call it...sharks attack and I will STAY HOME, thank you so very much!!! PEACE!!!
Tomtalker2000 weird flex, but I do ❤️sharks. Best observed from on land, via quality documentaries
And yet they are still using clickbait bulshit fear-mongering when it comes to sharks. Discovery channel is supposed to be helping educate and yet they're titled killer Jaws murderer blah blah blah.. it's pathetic
@@carlasullivan3637 listen, using your instead of you're, there, their, they're, etc can bug me a little too, but this isn't a classroom. We aren't getting tested on ourgrammar. This is a social media comment section. You know what means. Who gives a fuck? Do you really not have that much of a life that you feel the need to bitch about something like this on social media? I mean some people like me, use talk-to-text because it's faster and my phone will constantly use the wrong one. sometimes I catch it sometimes I don't but I know the difference between all those words. So I'm not going to fucking cry like a little bitch if someone uses the wrong one. Maybe they did it by accident maybe they don't know the difference or maybe it was just their phone. Either way quit being a cunt
Who else noticed that Author Peter Benchley is the Newscaster on the beach in Jaws who say's ''There is a Cloud over Amity, a Cloud in the shape of a Killer Shark''
pretty much anyone who saw the movie.
Xenologist he's a bit of a cocky lil fucker, isn't he? 😑🌊💦
I love how he regrets his story and is focussed on shark reservation now
@@aroseinwinter05 he's not wrong.
Fair well and ado to you fair Spanish ladies...
So you're HOOPERS mate? USS INDIANAPOLIS? What a terrible maritime naval disaster, that actually happened, as you are aware, you made me laugh !🦈
Hooper! Ain't ya watchin it!!
I wouldent swim for years after that movie lol
I wouldn't either. I still don't go into the ocean.
You know what's funny haha I hear people say that, and yet my girlfriend and I went to the beach at night time where they were showing Jaws on to blow up screens. One of them was facing the beach and the other one was facing away from the beach and my girlfriend and I watched the movie from inside the water at night time. And yet peopleactually we're scared to go in the water after it we were in the water during it haha
I remember seeing people reading the book while sitting on the beach! Insanity 🦈
Why is Luke Skywalker teaching me about sharks?
Why wouldn't he??
@@yourdaddy6030 interesting
This is why I like rivers that are at most five feet deep. You get an inner tube. You float down. You get out alive. It’s gorgeous and no one gets eaten today.
The ocean is fun for getting seashells, praying, looking at the sun over the water, and watching to see if a shark is hungry today so you can scream and say I told you respect nature safely from an umbrella with a 🍹 drink and a book.
Crocs, gators, snakes, otters & bull sharks are in the rivers… lol
Crocodiles
I love the great white shark , I love all sharks , but the great white has my heart
Dr. John McCosker is like the Carl Sagan of shark research
Me and my dad watched this when it came out. My dad caught sharks for a living. He had a commercial boat and fished rod and reel. He used to long line, but it got too expensive. I went out with my dad on se etal yrips and got to see a lot of crazy stuff. I miss it.
you can make a brick pool in the sea it's been done in scotland for 100s of yrs with no effect to marine life & everyone's safe we didn't have great whites then but some have been seen recently since we have high numbers of all types of seals, I'm amazed they're not more common in uk waters , I don't mind great whites but not bull or tiger sharks their just to unpredictable & attack everything & anything is prey to them , we have 30/35 ft basking sharks here but they only eat plankton which is fine by me I still wouldn't want to see one if I was in a canoe or a small dingy , After seeing jaws as a kid i don't ever go into the sea here or abroad while in tenerife on a boat trip people went swimming there were dolphins & pilot whales next to our boat all I could hear in my head was the music from jaws I paddled my legs for a few mins that was enough for me
This is like watching a documentary about Republicans vs Democrats!!!! Yes sharks need to be protected, they're not evil animals, they just do what they were born to do but i have to laugh at these shark experts complain about JAWS when that movie single handedly saved thousands of lives over the decades just because of fear to go into the water!!!!
The movie Jaws as based on the region of northeast coast was the scene of the shark attack in which a man was killed while swimming and then the shark went up the river or canal and attacked a boy or two, and a man who tried to save a victim. This was in early 1900s.
Wendy Davis that was in 1916 Wendy BTW
This needs to be on discovery channel instead of reality tv
I would have been more bugged by poor Pippin being eaten by the shark than humans getting eaten.
I have a brilliant understanding with the sharks, i do not go into their home and get bitten or eaten, and they do not come into mine. So easy and safe.
Johan Combrinck ....watch out for Landsharks selling vacuum cleaners....
The movie just solidified the ideas of sharks in the water with you.
I've got a synthesizer and I'm going to use it.
Die Surfers wissen das die von unter wie eine Robbe aussehen, aber trozdem gehen die da rein wo der grosse Weisse Hai ist, allein der gedanke macht einen schon angst, das ist einfach nur krass.
Shark hunting needs to be banned. It's UNETHICAL that humans would treat wildllife as such
Omg awesome!! I can't believe I found this
I though this going to base off the true story that inspired Jaws. NOPE, just fun facts about sharks.
I tried to read Peter's book and it is not that great, I remember it being very disjointed, with very little on the great white in fact it takes too long to get into any action. As a book, it is a very mundane novel to read. The film was a great improvement on the novel.
Thankfully we have a lot more respect and appreciation for how essential these sharks really are to the Earth ecosystem as a whole, thanks to Peter's campaign to preserve and protect this species and scientists' valuable research in understanding the Great White's role in maintaining the healthy oceans of Earth.
And it is not even the most dangerous ocean predator. great rival the Orca ('Killer whale'), is equally as efficient at hunting and it is very effective because of its ability to hunt in packs as an organized social unit.
Yeah I didn't like the book either, very disappointed.
@@gagaforgluing8247 I read it this year and I would say it's just totally different than the movie so I was reading it and having the film scenes go through my mind whilst doing so. But as a standalone book, if I hadn't had seen the movie,I liked it
Read the book last year and it felt so different after loving the movie for so long. Quint was a charmless bore as compared to the colorful and twisted avenger he is in the film, and his death, while symbolic of Captain Avery, was just pathetic. I’m not saying I hated the book and I think it’s a great read, it just doesn’t have the charm and lightning that the film had, which Spielberg was very lucky to capture for the world to see.
As a young teen seeing this movie scared the crap out of me! To this day I don't swim further from the shore than 50 yards or so before turning back.
Adjust the damned tracking...... that’s better.
He ended up saying the magic words stay out of the ocean! No way should we ever eliminate the great white sharks just because we want to recreate in their home! Our home in on land and the sharks home is the ocean well guess what if you want to swim or surf or dive you are just going to have to put up with the baddest fish in the ocean and you could be it's lunch! I grew up learning to swim in the bayou's of Louisiana and after my cousin lost his foot to a bull shark I gave up swimming in salt water! Not once did our family Blame the shark for doing what comes naturally! So any time you go to the beach and you think about going for a swim just remember you aren't alone!
🦈 Deadly, but beautiful creatures 🦈
Beach patrol chap @ 12:32 looks a bit like Matt Hooper.
How far we've come since then. Yet still making so many of the same mistakes
It's amazing how little we knew about Sharks in general, and Whites in particular back then.
I was sorta caught up in that macho bloodlust in my early twenties. Never actually went out after them, but that fantasy of catching and killing a shark was strong as a result of that book and movie. It was kind of a hysteria that gripped people. Thankfully, the experts did a great job of putting the proper perspective on things. But that "kill them before they kill us" mentality was really ingrained in the culture at that time
Great white sharks are more dangerous to people than orcas. That said both are magnificent and worthy of our respect and protection
Peter Benchley probably got a leg up with his book because he was from a famous Yankee writing family. The book really didn’t set this stuff off, Spielberg’s movie did. And the killing of sharks had taken place for a long while, famously off Montauk on Long Island by a man named Frank Mundus, who owned a charter fishing boat (there are 2 or 3 books out about him that are worth your time, fascinating character!). Also Benchley knew about the shark attacks in New Jersey around 1914-1916, and pretty sure he knew about Mundus. Mundus always said he was the inspiration for Quint.
I saw a massive great white brought in to Montauk when I was a kid. The model
Of it is hanging up at the harbor.
All true. My uncle lived in Amagansett & knew Mundus. I can remember being on the beach out there & shark sightings being called out.
@@LilyGazouMy grandparents lived in Springs. Took us to see a whale that washed up out on Shelter Island once. 🐳
Without the book, none of the rest happens. No film, nothing.
His book caused it, his guilt is well founded.
nostalgia i loved this documentary as a kid
Thank you very much for posting this, I've been looking for this for a while since I no longer have my old VHS copy taped from TV that I watched to death as a child in the 80's.
A really excellent documentary, almost everything I learned about sharks as a child was from Dr John McCosker's appearance in this programme.
The Jaws movie scared the shit out of me 😂😂 I first seen the movie on vhs in 1986 or 1987 around the age of 4 or 5 years old.But i remember it vividly.Then after i got over the fear of the great white shark i was mesmerized by that big shark 😂😂 My mom bought me a toy great white shark.The Jaws 2 poster was hanging on my wall.I bought a shark book at P.Dalton's book store.I even try to turn my g.i. joes and ninja turtle toys into Brody,Richard Dreyfuss,and that one shark hunter guy that helped brody and dreyfuss in that boat 😂😂 i had a wild imagination 😂😂 Hopefully they will come out with a Jaws 5 movie or a remake of Jaws 1 in the year 2024 era that would cool.Good video tho 👍
I watched Jaws for the first time as a 8 year old so would have been around 86. It’s terrified me to this day along with Great Whites! Although I understand them more now!
However, even for £1 million you could not get me to stick my head fully inside that frozen great white!! I would even wanna touch it lol!!
From what I read, there are approximately 3,500 Great White Sharks left in the world as of 2023.
Way more..australia alone has about that Number
At 37:21, the shark’s tail bumped another one i can almost hear the bumped shark say: «Hey Carl, watch where you’re sticking that thing. Oh... sorry George. Lol
-"or by a pool"
because jaws is in my 50 by 25 yard pool
*jumps into pool*
Hey Jaws
Jaws: *waves*
*high fives*
*wakes up*
what the hell just happened
Thankfully there haven't bn 2 many idiots over the years that have attempted 2 maintain a White Shark in captivity!! Give this guy the benefit of the doubt seein as this was nearly 40 yrs ago! Lol
Yeah we all know the stats. Doesn't make the great white shark any less terrifying.
While scuba diving north of San Juan Island had a group or seals became accustomed to us diving. I started doing multiple twists an turns to dance around seals enjoying our dance. Then 1 dive all seals around me immediately bolted away from me. Then a Sea lion appeared around me. Scared me for second time underwater. Lin Cod was my first real scare for my life. I thought blue shark dead. I pulled his tail trying to get him from ghost net attacked too rocks. I found him still alive. I pushed an pulled him back an forth too move water across his gills until he came too an pulled his tail from my hand.
I cant for the life of me,understand what's with the sharks???..its an overgrown.fish that eats humans,I'm sick of hearing about how they get a bad deal,and people should love them!..I hate them,they're dangerous and nobody needs to be around them,and of story!!
In the movie Jaws the guy at the beach throwing the stick to his dog then all the sudden he can't find the dog that didn't make sense I mean he'll be keeping an eye on the dog
Maybe someone stopped to talk to him. when I take my dog to the beach, I will throw the ball away down the beach. And if I'm with someone or with my girlfriend I will turn and talk to them while I wait for him to bring it back. He's a good dog and wouldn't run off. so if he turned to talk to someone for 30 seconds and the dog got snatched up and could easily have happened
Lol most sharks bite you by mistake OK I’m bitten in half but it was a mistake!! Sure my relatives would understand
You'll never catch me taking a swim in the sea 😟
Me either the sea is dangerous and smells
Learned to swim in those Long Island waters. Never worried about anything. Not until sailing did I get the heebie jeebies about deep dark water.
8 times in a row ????
Why don't you tell that to the hundreds of people that have been atacked and killed
By sharks. !!!!
This was a very well made documentary.
Not many improvements have been gained in 39 years of study, apart knowing a bit more about this MAJESTIC Lord of the sea's habits and behavior.
The show still has a bit of that mystic portray charachterizing the Animal, but it was normal back then, and it is true the way we still perceive the Sharks even nowadays, the show doesn't take a 100% WWF side but is also 100% away from the fear and killing spree of post-jaws era. Good to listen to Peter Benchley. I am going to share this video to many friends.
ps
Hope the lady in the Midwest is safe by now ;-)
THANK YOU!!
Been looking for a copy of this for 20 years,where did you get it?- many thanks anyway
This is much better than most "documentaries" on sharks made today. I loved the Camera angle on the real great white - gives you a feel of the massive size of the shark.
I have tremendous respect for John McCosker. A brilliant expert in the study. This is but one snap shot in time. The learning base has grown and evolved since that time but his reasoning is always sound with what is available.
The whole "sharks dont internationally attack humans" argument is just plain stupid. Like sharks should discriminate, why should it? Because we have feelings? Its a nature designed killing machine, and fact is, a prey is a prey..period. More people are killed by cars because there are more drivers than swimmers and surfers..fact
Maverick Ive been to Indonesian waters meeting fishermen who would talk about how their fish cage traps with Car tire weights would get messed up and have all six tires chewed off only to find pieces of it inside a tiger they caught.. So if they think human meat is so bad and hard to digest, talk to me again about how car tires taste better and digest better. Spare me the Nat Geo argument you moron.. Im not here to make a villain out of sharks. Im saying tigers are tigers and whites are whites
@@TheSpecOpsMarine You're... special. Of course sharks discriminate. Most animals discriminate, just not for the reasons we do. Taste is a factor. Most sharks don't seem to enjoy eating us. This is a trend amongst many animal species. They all have their preferred prey. They have evolved to hunt and live off of that preferred prey. We do not have any natural predators. yes, some predators will attack us, but that is the exception, not the rule. As for the tigers you were talking about, that's.. a different species. Different preferences, diets, and aggression.
@@realtsavowhy would we not have any natural predators? Of course we do. Big cats, crocodilians, pythons/anacondas, wolves, bears. And rarely, but consistently, sharks. More controversially, raptors. You go into the wild without kit - you're prey.
@@catsnads01 They don't routinely hunt us. The only animal that does that is the Polar Bear, and one group of Tigers. Most other predators have learned to avoid us, and in the case of sharks, most of those are mistaken identity. Moose, deer, elephants and bison also kill humans. Would you call those our natural predators?
Sharks are such emotionally cold, physically ugly animals. I love animals. The only animals that I DON'T like are sharks and alligators. Yuck!
Ah…..back when they told the TRUTH about sharks!
Water is too cold for swimming without a wetsuit in San Francisco
Yeah, all those beach movies don't you tell the water in California is freezing
Out-dated concepts now..There is much more known about them..Still they remain enigmatic...
Great Documentary, even if it's dated.
I watched Jaws as a child it was scary.That guy is still on the beach calling for Pippin
Pipit.
If you're going to kill a shark kill it for food don't just kill it kill it
Nowdays sharks will attack humans it became real true in this world. Its now 2019 in 2018 there were sharks attacks on humans.
All the animals are losing fear of humans just as the Bible said would happen
People are fearful coz these fish EAT people!!
Leave the sharks alone you bastards🦈
Yep - I’m another who recorded this in the 80s and watched it over and over and over again. It was such a part of my childhood that I vowed when I was older I would go to San Francisco seek out the Steinhart aquarium and try to meet Dr John McCosker. I’m so happy to say that when I was 40 I did travel there and I did indeed meet him and he was very gracious and an absolute Gentleman. It was a real highlight for me and an ambition attained. 😊
I read the book when I was 12. I wouldn't even go near a swimming pool, much less the ocean, FOR YEARS.
jaws was awsome brody was best acter ever
Not true Jawas was based on the New Jersey attacks in the 70 it was a bull shark that was involved
Is that true, about the Bull Shark? Grew up in Matawan & Holmdel NJ. When I was in 4th grade in the 70’s our school librarian told us one of the kids that was swimming that day in Matawan Creek was still alive & had a scar across his belly where the shark scrapped him. Lester & Stanley are both buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. Creepy place on its own 👻
Today we know they are wholesome, majestic and intelligent creatures that only attack people because of our evil ways. ; )
Brilliant! Thank you so much for uploading this, I used to have it on VHS back in the day, but it got rubbed. I loved this as a kid, Jaws is my favourite film. I think Great whites are beautiful and majestic creatures, but equally terrifying as predators. So glad they released that captured white back into the wild, where it belongs.
The Great White Shark every time its caught should be killed! Bull sharks especially there are literally millions of Bull sharks. Throw tiger sharks into that also. They will eat you, cripple you or just remove a limb. And it's usually by an ambush type attack. The big argument in a shark's behalf. Is oh they just thought you were a fish. Sharks have literally pulled people off of boats, and you say they just thought you were a fish. I THINK EVERY MAN-EATING SHARK SHOULD BE KILLED OFF WHEN THEY ARE CAUGHT!!!
Hate seeing that shark in the aquarium 😔
best way to start shark week
“Carl... don’t play with the damn shark cake!”
Annnnd this is why I don’t swim
I wonder if this is the shark documentary I had seen on TV many years ago when it aired on a special program, called "Super Shark Weekend". Some segments definitely remind me of it.
When I used to watch "Super Shark Weekend", they aired this one (if it's the right one) just before they aired "Operation: Shark Attack".
When I came to the US from Russia (Siberia) as an almost 8 year old jaws was the first movie I seen here. Of course it was old by then (I'm 31 and we got here a month before I turned 8 it was in 1999) we was dirt poor of course and had just a litte TV with the old analog dials on them and a vcr that we picked up from a goodwill drop off along with a couple tapes that was in a bag and one was jaws and the others was some preacher tapes. So we say down on the floor in our little apartment that the state provided us (we was under refugee status) for the first year we was here... we had no furniture except for 2 metal chairs and those little tables people in the 80s would use to eat on (TV tray I think it's called?) Anyhow in Russia we didn't have a TV (to poor) so we very seldom got to watch anything so it was a magical experience sitting down with my mother, father, brother and self watching a movie that we understood ZERO English and I'll never forget we was eating bananas (something we had never had nor even seen for that matter a banana) and it was the best thing I had ever tasted in my life lol.. I'll never forget that day, we had been here maybe 4-6 days at the time. The movie scared the absolute hell out of me, made me literally terrified to go to the beach later on after we started getting comfortable here and had a little money to do things. First time I went to the beach (we lived 6 miles from the beach in north east Florida) I was 10 and I wouldn't get in the water, I played in tide puddles, I was about 13 the first time I ventured out in to the surf with my dad and i wouldn't get any deeper then I could see my feet in the water so maybe like a foot deep water or so. I watched jaws literally 100s of times because it was the only movie we had and I loved it but when people would get attacked I would cover my eyes and look at it from the little slits ide make between my fingers lol. The first time I rode the ride jaws at Universal it was for my 11th bday and when the shark comes up at the side of the boat and then the boat driver gets the bomb gun I started crying lol. It was pure scared excitement.. I know it sounds silly to cry form fear from a ride but in Siberia we had nothing like that so it was totally novel experience for me.. now days I live in the keys and I'm out in salt water spear fishing all the time and have zero fear of shark... well no I fear them but only while they are trying to steal my fish I shot.. I respect them and find them amazing and beautiful creatures, bull sharks do get me a little worrisome when we are spearing fish so we really keep our eyes on them. I've seen two white sharks in my life, one about 11 feet out off marathon but we was in the boat and just watched it for a couple mins and one off the coast of Jacksonville Florida that was about 8 feet. If I was in the water and seen a white shark I think I would freeze and God only knows how I would react but I'm pretty sure I would flip out and it's all because of my fear of it from the movie as a small child. White sharks hugely fascinate me and I would absolutely love to get in a cage and see the big girls out off Africa or Australia but I really never want to see one while I'm in the water in Florida as I would be free diving and I don't know what I would do.. sorry for the long story, just speaking about a life experience that someone may enjoy reading and hopefully share their story about the movie back.