White Shark Sam Meets The Monster Man

About the Book

White Shark Sam Meets the Monster Man is a children´s story about trust, friendship and conservation. It is inspired by Frank Mundus´ continuing efforts to encourage and popularize shark tagging research.

Frank Mundus was nicknamed the "Monster Man" by his fellow fishermen because back in 1951 he started the sport of fishing for sharks, which were considered monsters back in those days. In the mid-1960s, he helped get the shark tagging program started in cooperation with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in Narragansett, Rhode Island.

About the Author

FRANK MUNDUS’S background was the unacknowledged inspiration for Peter Benchley’s shark hunter “Quint” in the book and movie Jaws. Mundus spent over fifty years catching sharks off Montauk Point, Long Island, New York. He pioneered the sport of shark fishing in 1951. Mundus has co-authored two other books Sportfishing for Sharks (Macmillan, 1971) with Bill Wisner and Monster Man (Cricket II, 1976) with Robert Boggs. In 2005 Mundus will appear in a Discovery Channel one-hour biographical special for Shark Week. JEANETTE MUNDUS Fifty Years a Hooker is a collaborative effort with her husband Frank on his autobiography.