Jaws 2 ... ," has become one of the most famous in film history and has been parodied and homaged several times. Although "Jaws 2" received mixed reviews, it is generally considered to be the best of the three "Jaws" sequels. The film was followed by "Jaws 3-D" and "", released in 1983 and 1987, respectively. Prior to a new hotel opening on Amity Island, a great white shark ambushes and kills two divers photographing the wreckage of the "Orca". Their camera, which triggered during the attack, is recovered. The shark then kills a female water skier. The driver fends off the
Jaws (novel) couldn't possibly write "Jaws" today ... not in good conscience anyway. Back then, it was generally accepted that great whites were anthropophagus (they ate people) by choice. Now we know that almost every attack on a human is an accident: The shark mistakes the human for its normal prey." Upon his death in 2006, Benchley's widow Wendy declared the author "kept telling people the book was fiction", and comparing "Jaws" to "The Godfather", "he took no more responsibility for the fear of sharks than Mario Puzo took responsibility for the Mafia." Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, film producers at