NAMES IN THE NEWS : ‘Jaws’ Model Plans to Retire
Shark hunter Frank Mundus, who claims to be the model for the Quint character in “Jaws,” says he’s retiring to Hawaii next year after half a century on the seas off Long Island.
“Anybody that’s been in this business for 50 years has to have his head examined,” said Mundus, 64.
Mundus is in the record books for catching the biggest great white shark ever snared with a rod and reel, a 3,450-pound fish caught off Montauk Harbor in August, 1986.
Last summer, when Mundus tried to renew his lapsed captain’s license, the Coast Guard discovered that he could barely read. He was denied a license and had to hire a licensed captain to operate his boat.
In October, Mundus sold his charter fishing business and his boat, Cricket II, to two used-car salesmen. He said he intends to move to Hawaii at the end of the 1991 summer season.
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