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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 !
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.
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.
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.
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''
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.
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.
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.
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."
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!!
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 UA-cam.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 😂😂😂😂
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.
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?
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!!
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 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.
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.
When asked about the attack at 11:45. He should of responded with, "which type"? there are 3 types of attacks. Investigating, territorial, and the one the is the reason for most deaths from sharks and the most dangerous, predatory. The first is obviously a soft bite basically just to figure out what you are and if you are edible. The 2nd is a warning to leave its area that it has claimed as its territory. The last is the fatal one. the shark has decided you are food and is done the way the scientist described. Investigating can usually lead to predatory. However, during a shark investigating you, if can be driven away by giving him a good whack on his nose or punching his eyes.
This was forty years ago. Many of these things were new to us back then. We didn't have UA-cam with shorts about shark attacks, for example, or Wikipedia. This kind of documentary or the library, looking for books and ordering them, if available, from another library. You can't overinform people, they'll not be able to keep the most important information. (this is true today, too, and one of the biggest problems of the internet era - everyone can put out all kinds of fake or true information and you have to figure out what is true and what's not, and also, what's important and what's not on such a scope that there are many people who are overwhelmed by it.
Thanks so much for this. For some reason I knew the ending to the circular aquarium problem... I must have seen this as a child. McCorsker looks like he's aged about 7 years if you've seen any recent photos of him.
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".
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
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
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.
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.
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
Lol..I did go to the universal jaws tour..when the shark jumps up at us it was so fake. You could see the underwater rail the shark was attached to the propelled it through the water. Then when the shark jumped up right in front of me I could clearly see the inside machinery while the shark was opening and closing it's mouth..nice boat ride though..lol..
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
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.
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.
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...🎶🎶🎶
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."
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?
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.
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.
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.
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! 😄
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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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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
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.
I’m still scared to get in the bath after watching jaws 😳
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.
I read the book when I was 12. I wouldn't even go near a swimming pool, much less the ocean, FOR YEARS.
This needs to be on discovery channel instead of reality tv
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."
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!!
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.
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 UA-cam.
nostalgia i loved this documentary as a kid
The movie just solidified the ideas of sharks in the water with you.
Why is Luke Skywalker teaching me about sharks?
Why wouldn't he??
@@yourdaddy6030 interesting
I love the great white shark , I love all sharks , but the great white has my heart
YOU KEPT MY ASS OUT OF THE WATER SINCE 1975 THIS IS 2018 I WILL NOT GO IN THE WATER.
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
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.
Dr. John McCosker is like the Carl Sagan of shark research
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
Thanks for uploading this,
Greatest movie of the ‘70’s
Jaws The Exorcist and The Shining Top 3 Best Horror Movies of All Time.
This documentary is very sophisticated and quite well done! So glad they were able to inverview Peter Benchley. Jaws is such a great and scary movie!
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
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.
“Carl... don’t play with the damn shark cake!”
fantastic documentary ,thanks for this post
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 🦈
Thanks for posting this, it was cool to see the footage in Lew Boren segments.
Unfortunate phrasing.
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.
Omg awesome!! I can't believe I found this
It's amazing how little we knew about Sharks in general, and Whites in particular back then.
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
🦈 Deadly, but beautiful creatures 🦈
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 😂😂😂😂
Greatful you have this dog with your care ❤ ♥ Thankyou
I remember this. 1984 was a great year!!!! With exception of many shark attacks. I lived in Pacific Grove and knew Lewis Boren. God rest his soul.
I've got a synthesizer and I'm going to use it.
I remember I recorded this onto a VHS tape back in the 80's. And I love the music with the slow motion footage of the shark at the end
Great Documentary, even if it's dated.
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.
best way to start shark week
-"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
LOL the music takes me right back to Dr. Who and fourth Doctor....LOL
Another great writer!
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?
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!!
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.
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....
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 watched Jaws as a child it was scary.That guy is still on the beach calling for Pippin
Pipit.
Somewhere I still have a page from the Radio Times where this episode was advertised when this episode was first shown in 1984.
Are you an old time shark/Jaws fan?
I've been a big fan of Jaws since 1984.
Me too, pretty much the same time. I was 7-8 years in -84. I remember Jaws 3 commercials on tv.
When asked about the attack at 11:45. He should of responded with, "which type"? there are 3 types of attacks. Investigating, territorial, and the one the is the reason for most deaths from sharks and the most dangerous, predatory. The first is obviously a soft bite basically just to figure out what you are and if you are edible. The 2nd is a warning to leave its area that it has claimed as its territory. The last is the fatal one. the shark has decided you are food and is done the way the scientist described. Investigating can usually lead to predatory. However, during a shark investigating you, if can be driven away by giving him a good whack on his nose or punching his eyes.
If you see the attack, you can try this, as they like to come from below the intended victim to attack.
This was forty years ago. Many of these things were new to us back then. We didn't have UA-cam with shorts about shark attacks, for example, or Wikipedia. This kind of documentary or the library, looking for books and ordering them, if available, from another library. You can't overinform people, they'll not be able to keep the most important information. (this is true today, too, and one of the biggest problems of the internet era - everyone can put out all kinds of fake or true information and you have to figure out what is true and what's not, and also, what's important and what's not on such a scope that there are many people who are overwhelmed by it.
Great white sharks are more dangerous to people than orcas. That said both are magnificent and worthy of our respect and protection
Beach patrol chap @ 12:32 looks a bit like Matt Hooper.
Thanks so much for this. For some reason I knew the ending to the circular aquarium problem... I must have seen this as a child. McCorsker looks like he's aged about 7 years if you've seen any recent photos of him.
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".
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
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!!
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
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
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.
Been looking for a copy of this for 20 years,where did you get it?- many thanks anyway
I saw this the first time it aired back in '84.
How far we've come since then. Yet still making so many of the same mistakes
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.
Loved this in 80
jaws was awsome brody was best acter ever
Wow I haven’t seen this in years.
Yeah we all know the stats. Doesn't make the great white shark any less terrifying.
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.
really interesting
I watched a shark program on bbc 1 that was amazing xxxx
Ah, the cutting edge technology that was the video tape.
NOVA on PBS aired a re-narrated episode in December that year.
That's the one I taped off PBS.
Its funny how just watching jaws as a child played with my head and how i reacted to the sea,which i was never scared of before the movie.
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
I would have loved to go on that Universal tours ride.
Ludo Kressh ~ you didn't
miss much, I found that part of it very disappointing.
Lol..I did go to the universal jaws tour..when the shark jumps up at us it was so fake. You could see the underwater rail the shark was attached to the propelled it through the water. Then when the shark jumped up right in front of me I could clearly see the inside machinery while the shark was opening and closing it's mouth..nice boat ride though..lol..
Thanx 4 the upload! Been looking for this Doc since I saw it on PBS in the 80's. It's title then was, "The real Jaws".
I believe this is the first time ive seen this one, not bad O_O
big males back then a dangerous reef awesome footage