When Quint delivered his famously chilling monologue in Jaws, few could have predicted that sharks – once the tertiary predators of the sea – were, for the first time in 400 million years, about to become prey.
This week, 37-year-old Jason Cull fought off a Great White shark by poking it in the eye when he was attacked off the coast of Australia.
He's not the only person who's come face-to-face with a feisty fish and lived to tell the tale.
MSN UK News and Windows Live Maps present a geographical guide to eight others who've diced with death in the ocean and escaped by the skin of their teeth.
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A man has survived a great white shark attack by poking the five-metre long carnivore in the eye. The shark tore two chunks from Jason Cull's left leg as he swam off a beach on Australia's southwest coast.
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