Famed shark fisherman Frank Mundus dies, was 82

Famed shark fisherman Frank Mundus dies, was 82

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 Wednesday at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu after a heart attack, his wife said.

It was his second heart attack in four days. He suffered the earlier one Sept. 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.

He forged his reputation as a fearless fisherman in Montauk beginning in 1951, hunting down the world's biggest sharks.

"I had a lot of close calls," he once said. "Probably too many close calls."

In 1964, Mundus used a harpoon to snag a 4,500-pound great white. He later bagged a 17-foot-long, 3,427-pound great white by rod and reel in 1986. He later described the experience to Esquire magazine.

"After you get the fish, you turn around and look at the fish, and you feel sorry for the fish because he's your opponent," Mundus recalled. "I always feel good that I won, but I feel sorry for the one who lost."

On his Web site, Mundus said events from the 1964 catch influenced Peter Benchley, who wrote "Jaws." But Benchley maintained that Quint was a composite character.


The best-selling book was turned into the 1975 film, a blockbuster that left many beachgoers thinking twice about taking a dip in the ocean.

Mundus, who was born in Long Branch, N.J. in 1925, called "Jaws" the "funniest and the stupidest" movie he had ever seen and said he some things in common with Quint such as similar fishing techniques.

Jeanette Mundus said her husband actively promoted shark conservation starting in the 1960s. He pushed the use of less damaging hook varieties that allow fishermen to catch and release the fish.

"A lot of people over the years have thought of him just as a hunter of sharks," Jeanette Mundus said. "But he did try to preserve them."

Mundus retired to Hawaii in 1991 after a lifetime of fishing. He didn't regularly fish for sharks off Hawaii, his wife said.

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Odd News: Greek postmen beat zombies to win oddest book title

Odd News: Greek postmen beat zombies to win oddest book title

LONDON (Reuters) - "Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers" benefited from a late surge in public support to win the title Friday of oddest book title of the past 30 years, The Bookseller magazine said.

The book -- a comprehensive record of Greek postal routes by Derek Willan -- grabbed 13 percent of the 1,000 international public votes cast to chose the oddest title from the winners of the annual competition that began in 1978.

It beat "People Who Don't Know They're Dead" and "How To Avoid Huge Ships" into second and third places with 11 and 10 percent respectively.

"The posties pulled off a real shock here. The pre-tournament favorite was the prize's first ever recipient - "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice," said Horace Bent, custodian of the annual Diagram Prize.

"Right from the off, it was Gary Leon Hill's "People Who Don't Know They're Dead" that set the pace. It topped the polls for over three weeks," he added.

Another early favorite "How To Bombproof Your Horse" also failed to feature in the final count.

The prize was dreamed up initially at the 1978 Frankfurt Book Fair as a way of avoiding boredom. It has since become an annual star. This year's winner was "If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs."

(Reporting by Jeremy Lovell; Editing by Matthew Jones)

Odd News - Pastor Harry BIBLE CODE: COMET IMPACT: 2012 AD

Odd News - BIBLE CODE: COMET IMPACT: 2012 AD

Read these scary predictions from Pastor Harry

When we study The Book of Revelation and Bible Prophecy, we realize that Comet Impact will happen and plays a major role in events during the Great Tribulation. Here is a six point summary of why I believe a massive Comet is heading towards Earth and 2012 AD may be The Year for Impact.

1) NASA & DEEP IMPACT

In Feb 2004, NASA accounced that The 10th planet, "Planet X" is real and is a comet planet. They named this comet, SEDNA and claim it will safely pass over 950 million miles from earth.

Yet on 12 JAN 2005, NASA launched "Deep Impact" a comet buster satellite that will impact Comet Tempel 1 (a small comet) on JULY 4 2005. NASA hopes to smash a 100 ft deep creater into this Comet. More than likely "deep impact" contains a bunker buster, nuclear warhead that will crash deep within the comet and detonate. IS THIS TARGET PRACTICE FOR THE DOOMSDAY COMET: 2012 AD ? It is interesting that Comet Tempel 1 will be impacted as it travels between Jupiter and Mars, the exact, ancient course of NIBIRU, The Comet Planet.

2) MAYAN CALENDAR

The ancient Mayans were "given" a 5000 Year Calendar by their god, Quezecoatal. The Calendar ends on DEC 22 2012 as The "Year of Doomsday". It is very possible this Calendar was Extra- Terrestrial and predicts a cosmic event, such as Comet Impact.

3) COMET PLANET

The ancient world of Sumer to Babylon were "taught" by their gods about The Comet Planet, called "Nibiru". This is a massive Comet Planet, believed to pass earth every 3600 years, coming thru the Asteroid Belt between Jupiter and Mars.

In Jos:10, (O.T.) we read of "A day of 24 hours, when the earth stood still". This could have been caused by the passing of the Comet Planet. Its gravitational pull could have reversed spun Earth on its axis, creating a day of 24 hours. If we take the Mayan year of 2012 AD and subtract 3600 years (orbit of Comet Planet) we get 1588 BC, around the time of Joshua and the "day earth stood still".

4) THIRD PROPHECY OF FATIMA
AND THE BIBLE CODE

The Vatican has hidden The Third Prophecy of Fatima (Portugal 1917 AD). In 1984 Pope John Paul 2 said, "The catastrophic nature of the third prophecy is so great that millions of lives will be lost. There is no need to panic the world over such a great loss of life". The Pope also spoke of "global tidal waves and earthquakes of a terrible magnitude." All of This Points To Comet Impact, The Coming of The Comet Planet.

I have discovered in THE BIBLE CODE, what The Third Prophecy of Fatima is... and it is COMET IMPACT. A Great Cataclysm to Impact Earth. In other Bible Codes, I have found COMET and WORMWOOD that will smash earth (Rev:8) encoded with the year 2010 AD and 2012 AD. The First Date could be when the Comet Planet is first sighted, 2012 AD could be The Date of IMPACT.

5) NOSTRADAMUS

"In the year 1999 and seven months, The Great King of Terror shall come from the sky". I believe this is the Comet Planet, NIBIRU, that will trigger global destruction.

The reason that nothing happened in the year 1999 is because Nostradamus could have meant when NASA first discovers the threat of the Comet Planet (using Hubble Telescope). Nostradamus has many quatrains of A Comet bringing great destruction soon after the year 2000, the new millennium. 2012 AD?

6) BOOK OF REVELATION

In light of NASA and its Comet Buster Technology, this gives us a new insight on Rev:8 and Bible Prophecy.

I believe A Comet/ Comet Planet is on a Collision Course with Earth (probably around 2012 AD). NASA will shatter this massive Comet with a "comet buster" nuclear missile. But the core of the Comet will be much harder than NASA believed. This shattered Comet will collide with earth, exactly as we read in Revelation.

A global shower of flaming Meteors (ranging in size from a golf ball to a house) sets one-third of the green grass, vegetation and crops of earth on fire. (Rev:8:8).

An Asteroid (large chunk of comet, one mile in diamater) will crash into the sea and cause a massive Tidal Wave, turrential flooding and more famine (Rev:8:9)

"Wormwood" crashes into the ocean or sea, causing one third of the drinking water to be poisoned. Wormwood may be another "chunk" of this comet or a 100 megaton Russian or Chinese Missile that hits NYC (USA) as W.W. III explodes across Europe, a War fought for food and fresh water.

It is very possible that the Great Tribulation will start between the year 2006 and 2012 AD. In the Bible Code I have found COMET encoded with RAPTURE.

The USA is preparing for War against IRAN and SYRIA as they (as with Saddam) cannot be in possession of nuclear weapons, especially with the coming Threat from The Comet Planet.

In the Gospel, JESUS promises that His True Followers, His Faithful Remnant, will ESCAPE the Tribulation and Comet Impact.

THIS ESCAPE IS BEING
ACCOUNTED WORTHY TO BE
TAKEN IN THE FIRST OF
TWO RAPTURES EVENTS.
(Luke:21:34-36)

IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, THESE
WORTHY BELIEVERS ARE CALLED THE
CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA.

"Because you kept My Word of
My Patience, I will also
Keep you from the hour of
Testing that will try all who
Dwell upon the face of the
whole earth." (Rev:3:10)

God Bless You In These End Times
Pastor Harry
Church of Philadelphia -Internet

http://www.satansrapture.com/nasa2012.htm