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Honolulu: Frank Mundus, the legendary shark fisherman said to have inspired the Captain Quint character in the movie Jaws, has died. He was 82.
Mundus died on Wednesday at The Queen's Medical Centre in Honolulu after a heart attack, his wife said.
It was his second heart attack in four days. He suffered the earlier one September 6 at Kona International Airport after returning from a business trip to New York.
Mundus had a history of heart disease, his wife, Jeanette Mundus, 46, said from their home in Naalehu on the southern tip of the Big Island. He suffered his first heart attack in 1998 and later had quadruple bypass surgery.
Known as the "Monster Man" for the size of the sharks he caught, the gregarious Mundus had an outsized personality nearly as big as his famed boat, the Cricket II.
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