Get people out of the water!

Sailing is a water sport, which gives sailors a connection to the water. While there aren’t many great sailing movies, no feature film has kept people out of the water like Jaws. If you’ve visited Martha’s Vineyard and driven on Beach Road connecting Edgartown and Oak Bluffs, you may have witnessed people diving off the bridge made famous in the movie. Irony, right?

The 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws is being widely commemorated because of the film’s cinematic, cultural, and social influence. It is being marked by television specials and multiple events around where the movie was filmed, which is also where the fictional events were to have happened. Peter Swanson, who grew up near where the movie was filmed, shares history and personal experience for this occasion. – Full report