Author Topic: Who else was affected by the movie 'Jaws'? (Read 1745 times)

jato757 · « **Reply #30 on:** February 13, 2001, 11:00:00 PM »

im not to worried about that myself, i grew up on the wast coast, (san fracisco bay aria) and i use to go to santa cruse, and half moon bay, and let me tell you, if you go in the water without a wet suit on you were gonna freizz your prettythang off, even in the summer time, but thats just my experience, so you can say that i went to the beach to get a tan and enjoy the view, (u guys know what im talkin about) oh well later "JATO"

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Bonden · « **Reply #31 on:** March 02, 2002, 08:22:15 AM »

I was born and raised on Martha's Vineyard and was an extra in the movie "JAWS" After the early scenes were done, I ran a
support boat for the crew, ferrying meals and some of the actors and crew back and forth to the beach. There were a lot of island people involved in various support roles throughout the summer of 1974 and we all had a great time. The entire movie crew were all nice people. Robert Shaw was the best - real down to earth guy, not pretentious at all and fun to be around.

I have always been aware that there are sharks in the local waters here and can only relax in a lake or a pool - dont believe the movie itself had much to do with my phobia tho.

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If ya dont wanna swim with sharks, dont go in the water with em

Udie · « **Reply #32 on:** March 02, 2002, 08:34:42 AM »

yah know you easterners have to worry about sharks like us gulf coasters

Scarey though, you should try swimming in the same spot in a Louisiana rivers that have 15' and larger gators

When I was 10 yrs old at a family reunion in Louisiana us kids were out swimmin in the river. Later on that night my great uncles were talkin about cousin Buford (i never new about him until this) who was killed by a gator back in 1948 when he was about my age at the time, IN THE SAME SPOT IN THE RIVER WE HAD BEEN SWIMMING IN I never got into another river in Louisiana to this day 25 yrs later

Sandman · « **Reply #33 on:** March 02, 2002, 10:11:26 AM »

I like being at the top of my food chain no matter where I'm at.

Curval · « **Reply #34 on:** March 02, 2002, 10:57:18 AM »

Jaws totally freaked me out too...

Water skiing was an unnerving experience for years afterwards. Sitting in the water in the ocean waiting for the boat to come back around after a fall was terrifying. I would just let the life jacket keep me up and stay as still as possible...I read that sharks were attracted to vibrations in the water and that human kicking motion resembles an injured prey for the sharks. Then I would try hard not to think about that movie. Never worked.

Don't ski much anymore, but I'm willing to bet I'd still be pretty scared out there.

PS It was released in 1975...trust me...I remember it well!

capt. apathy · « **Reply #35 on:** March 02, 2002, 11:13:14 AM »

in the '70s one of my aunts had a huge house out of town with an above ground pool with the deck around it. we used to go there all the time for family get togethers, and the kids would swim. a couple months after jaws came out we had a get together. as usual as soon as the car doors opened me and my little brother bail out and run as fast as we can directly for the pool to dive in.

one of my uncles lives up on the columbia river and does alot of fishing and hunting, so the morning of the get together he was fishing up around the dalles dam and he catches a sturgeon about 7 feet long. so he gets this great funny idea, he lines the truck bed with plastic and puts the fish and enough water to keep it alive in the bed and stopping at almost every station on the way down to top off the water he takes this fish to the party before we get there and dumps it in the pool to keep until it's time to slaughter it.

so here i am about 10 yrs old or so at a dead run to do a cannon ball into the pool, i'm fairly sure my feet had already jumped before i seen the 'shark' in the pool, but some how i stopped in mid-air and didn't make it in. the best part was that i quickly realised it wasn't a shark, stepped back out of the way and let my little brother run past and dive in.

wish i had film of that

mrfish · « **Reply #36 on:** March 02, 2002, 12:59:51 PM »

eeek galveston. the thing about galveston is that the water is 4ft deep for like 75yds or more from the beach.

you can get waaaaaay out there and still not be over your head.

i had a giant brownish shape brush me in those murky-ass waters and ran like crazy. i panicked so hard i ran toward the beach at an angle. i could have made it in half the time probably.

i remember looking at my trunks once after galveston and seeing that they were covered in clumps of oil! galveston was pretty gross when i lived in those parts in 83. did they ever clean it up? the whole south coat from port arthur to houston smelled like dogwater back then. i was happy to move.

i just seem to attract sharks. learning to surf in san francisco can put the fear into you too. especially when you are sitting on the board watching seals bob by you knowing you are right in the middle of great white breeding territory.

my firends always tried to convince me the headless and mutilated seals we'd find on the shore were from the cargo ships coming in and out of the bay but......

some people can be confident about it but i am an admitted pansy also in this area.

Bonden · « **Reply #37 on:** March 02, 2002, 01:58:34 PM »

Yeh, it was released in 75, but made in 74:D

Udie · « **Reply #38 on:** March 02, 2002, 03:17:04 PM »

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i remember looking at my trunks once after galveston and seeing that they were covered in clumps of oil! galveston was pretty gross when i lived in those parts in 83. did they ever clean it up? the whole south coat from port arthur to houston smelled like dogwater back then. i was happy to move.

yeah they cleaned up about that time actually, 83 and 84 sucked down there because of Hurricane Alicia. There was an oil spill in the late 70's down by brownsville that fluffied up the texas coast for years. I remember all the oil as a kid. All the shops down there used to keep little pans full of kerosine to wash your feet in before you entered the store.

i just seem to attract sharks. learning to surf in san francisco can put the fear into you too. especially when you are sitting on the board watching seals bob by you knowing you are right in the middle of great white breeding territory.

my firends always tried to convince me the headless and mutilated seals we'd find on the shore were from the cargo ships coming in and out of the bay but......

heh the only time I ever tried to surf was just north of san fran at stetson or stenson beach (can't remember the name) it was near Mt. Tamalpias (wooo many a acid trip motor cycle ride up that mountain ) I sucked at surfing as was just kind of laying on the board catching waves when i saw some seals. I thought it was the best thing I had ever seen so I paddled my way over to where they were (about 50 yds from me) I was trying to pet or catch one, really just get close to them to check em out. 2 of em swam off when I got near, but one of them stayed about 10 ft. away from me checking me out. I had a really good conversation with him was really a cool thing to experience at 17 yrs old.

Meanwhile all my friends back on the beach were yelling at me to come back to shore, finaly I did. When I got there they all told me what a dumb arse I was for playing with the seals. I had no clue until that momemt that there were great white sharks in the same water as me, and that the seals were their main food sorce I would not have even gone in the water had I known great whites were withing 100 miles of the place At least I didn't learn the "really hard way" LOL

Gadfly · « **Reply #39 on:** March 02, 2002, 04:31:28 PM »

Up above, someone said they didn't worry about sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. Not a good idea. I have seen schools of 8+ foot hammerheads and solo ones up to 15' very close to shore in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Florida. In the surf and amongst people, for that matter. I have seen a 12-15 foot Mako chase down a bait being trolled at 20 MPH, leap out of the water a good 10 foot high, 30 feet behind the bait and land on it, face down and running. These things are killing machines.

Shark attacks are like car wrecks. You can work to prevent them, but there is always the other guy out there that smacks you while you are not looking.

My stupid little brother used to get his kicks feeding them up so he could photo them. Ain't nothing worse than an excited black tip:

steely07 · « **Reply #40 on:** March 02, 2002, 06:01:40 PM »

That movie kept me out of the deep end of our pool for nearly a year

well it wasn't much longer than 18 months really......

Kanth · « **Reply #41 on:** March 03, 2002, 05:07:42 AM »

They probably really wanted to make a movie about attacks from Jelly Fish but from what I understand they are really hard to train.

"Attack of the killer crabs" may have gotten an X rating, so I'm guessing that is why they went with the good 'ol honest shark.

Kanth

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I'm more worried about jelly fish and crabs. I've had to get stichs from stepping on crabs, and been stung more times then I can remember by moon jelly fish...and 5 or 6 times by PMOW's.

midnight Target · « **Reply #42 on:** March 03, 2002, 03:45:12 PM »

I was fishing down in Mexico near Punta Bonda (On the west coast of Baja) in a small open 12' boat with my Dad when I hooked a Bonita. That is a tuna-like fish about 20lbs and fastern hell. I was reeling in this beast when the line went slack! I kept cranking and hauled in a bonita head. Thats when a Hammerhead went by that was bigger than our boat. Very freaky sight. Needless to say we moved to another spot.

AKIron · « **Reply #43 on:** March 04, 2002, 01:26:52 AM »

I was doing a lot of Scuba diving when the movie came out. Didn't deter me at all. Made those night dives more exciting and I did keep my kids on the sand at the beach for a while.

BTW, the book was better.

Saintaw · « **Reply #44 on:** March 04, 2002, 02:22:47 AM »

I was a kid back then, only thing I remember is that I absolutely refused to take a bath that week, I was affraid the shark would come out of the tub.

We used to live in Indonesia back then... I remember seeing sharkfins in the water real close to the water's "dark edge"

I think "Arachnophobia " that came out long after had a much bigger impact on me...I will NEVER go in a tropical forest, EVER!!!