Jaws (film) but he manages to escape to the seabed. The shark then attacks the boat directly and devours Quint. Trapped on the sinking vessel, Brody stuffs a pressurized scuba tank into the shark's mouth, and, climbing the crow's nest, shoots the tank with a rifle. The resulting explosion obliterates the shark. Hooper surfaces, and he and Brody paddle back to Amity Island clinging to the remaining barrels. Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, producers at Universal Pictures, independently heard about Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws". Brown came across it in the literature section of lifestyle magazine "Cosmopolitan", then edited by his wife,
Shark attack large-scale hunting and killing of thousands of sharks. "Jaws" had a significant impact on people and gave them an unrealistic view of sharks, causing them to fear them more than they probably should. The media has continued to exploit this fear over the years by sensationalizing attacks and portraying sharks as vicious man-eaters. There are some television shows, such as the famous "Shark Week", that are dedicated to the preservation of these animals. They are able to prove through scientific studies that sharks are not interested in attacking humans and generally mistake humans as prey. Shark attack A shark attack