I dive as much as I can.
I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.
Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.
Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.