Frank Mundus -- Original "Jaws" Captian

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http://www.newsday.com/ny-limundus0914,0,7561328.story

Legendary shark hunter Frank Mundus, 82, dies

Heart attack takes famed Montauk fisherman

BY ROBERT WARGAS |Special to Newsday11:10 PM EDT, September 13, 2008

Frank Mundus (right) at the Montauk Marine Basin with a record 17-foot shark he caught in August 1986 with charterboat captain Donnie Braddick. (Newsday Photo / Dick Kraus)


They called him the Monster Man. His business was the stuff of tall tales. Gear for the day might include a harpoon, buckets of blood and the patience to wait for a shark to come along and take a bite.

"I was the pioneer of sport fishing for sharks," Frank Mundus, a legendary shark hunter, said in his trademark blunt style on his Web site.

The Monster Man's own words sum up perfectly a life said to have inspired the movie "Jaws" and its roguish Captain Quint, played by the late Robert Shaw. Mundus died Wednesday of complications from a heart attack suffered Sept. 6, just after he returned to his Hawaii home from a fishing trip in Montauk. He was 82.

A brave man who took on our nightmares and brought them to the surface for our viewing pleasure and helped inspire one of the greatest horror films of all time. He didn't need a bigger boat, there wasn't a boat big enough for him.
RIP Frank.

 

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Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish Ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain;
For we've received orders for to sail for ole England,
But we hope in a short time to see you again.

 

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