Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.

You could start now, and spend another forty years learning about the sea without running out of new things to know.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

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.

The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.