12. To record Susan Backalinic's screams (she was the first one the shark attacked), Spielberg stood above the actress with a bassinet full of water and poured it over he mouth as she yelled.
13. Dreyfus became a star during the filming with his role in "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" which opened and he used this fame to try to pick up women during the filming.
14. The 13-foot tiger shark reeled in was a real shark, caught in Florida, packed in ice and shipped to Martha's Vineyard where it sat on the dock for four days, making an awful stench.
In revenge, islanders left shark carcasses at the homes of the producers.
15. To make the blood as distinctive as possible, Spielberg ordered that no other bright red objects could be filmed in the same scene.
16. Three mechanical sharks, each weighing in at a ton and a half and costing about 150,000 apiece were used.They would sometimes sink and one had its hydraulics explode. They also became discolored from exposure to the sea.
And, We're Not Finished Yet. --CootShark
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