European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Off Long Bland i maybe skipper John Sweetman stands at the Stern of his 40fq charter bout that he and his son say was pulled through knots plus for nearly 14 hours by a a spooned 30foot great by Saul Pett associated press somewhere beyond lands he is out a White bellied evil a Mouthful of Dagger Teeth two inches a jaw big enough to Swallow a sea lion or a Man without a he is out grinning great White it is frequently took like there this one has special f on june 23 he entered the world of Man for 13 and 20 he led the seven Oclock i of Jimmy he starred in a sea spectacular somehow combined great menace and mystery in a Marx Brothers version of moby then he was be has left a remarkable Wake still a whale of an a blur Between fact and a souring of old a surfacing of human rivalry and a Midsummer languor rent by cries of liar and threats of a Law a Shadow of suspicion on a Large the indignation of editorialists and in he caused business men to worry about business and nature to imitate he left Ripples of deflation on 140 Miles to the David co producer of jaws i and passed David theatrical on the said Browns Chest swelled he thought Merrick was praising his latest turned out Merrick was congratulating him for a Brown told As he tells knowing Winkers he still encounters at cocktail that neither he nor Universal pictures had anything co do with the great White off that the logistics of such a stunt would be boggling he he owns a place on Eastern Long Island and is not about to bring Down prop erty values like reports of flying tales of great White Sharks ignite equal intensity among believers and non probably because both involve unthinkable the difference is that Reat Whites an a known lad of Ocean they they Roa of to feet Aari too Audi of they have attacked Aad used people Aad destroyed  for they  appear a the big oae that at this one got away june 23 off what we Are left until somebody comes up with is the credibility of the men among others in John Sweetman of the charter boat ebb tide and Paul Sundburg of the Montauk Are professional fishermen of considerable experience and recognized what follows is what they and others said they saw and fourteen Miles off Montauk in 182 feet of John his son and and six paying charter customers aboard the ebb Chase a huge the Captain estimates they Are looking at a fish about 30 feet Long and Well Over Jimmy nails the monster with a the shark takes Oft for the open just under the drag Ging 24 feet of steel 300 feet of  Nylon line madly Over the two Large the fish sounds and the kegs the fish sur faces the first of three the Sweet mans get the line cleats Ratthe the fish pulls the 17iton creating maximum water pulls it at two sometimes John Sweetman radios for help from his Paul out with another charter on the Sundberg has his own reasons for in three Miles from Sweetman s present he put two har Poons into a great White before losing in that the fish Tore off the lower half of a Large Blue shark hanging from the Montauk s leaving Teeth Marks 30 inches across the could this be the same White the Montauk now closes in on Sweetman s shark in the Hope of getting another Harpoon into up on the Mike the spots the fish ahead Aad five feel below the surface and what he sees causes him to my my my Sundberg gets a Good he agrees with Sweetman s estimate of size and calculates that across the Middle this beast measures seven or eight feet in by the Media and the curious Are out to sea in frenzied Force with boats vying one chopper to Page 10 the stars and stripes the noise and the motion cause the great White to finally in the gathering darkness of the 14th hour of for the last 2 stews its backward nov meets and Sundberg has a familiar August 1978 your heart goes your feel like hell there be goes for a moment dead silence engulfs 1 John Sweetman Well he Heads for Home was not the it had suddenly become a strange i Pool of instant to Calls from reporters across the country i As Hong Mexico and a world of people Sweetman and choosing up sides worst of of 1 know now doubting their the East Hampton Star came out Side of the the spectacle of Montauk egged on by the left us said in a Lead editorial that took it Cerns about nuclear disarmament zoning in Sag we were delighted that the there was such a shark got the Star denounced the atavistic i would destroy such a magnificent suggested that the poor beast might i dining out on a few human it would Only be fair if the great 1 his ordeal this weekend chose to emus ample of 1 be to follow the habits of his i to More palatable morsels such As Bill at the Eastern end of Long 1 somewhat stridently in Brooklyn and panoply of Long White beaches and dra Monte owns and worries about resort hotel in the Nick was i the fictional businessmen of we have one of the most fantastic he and when some tries to foist a promotion hoax at i get he threatened a multimillion Dollar to All he came up with Learned quotations from a voluminous up to the generally accepted fact that i shark attacking a Man Are one build tip american Waters and that the last by Island occurred 58 Yean ago in j the chamber of Commerce of Freeport 1 Ful