Frank Mundus, who inspired the classic film Jaws, has died, not from a Great White Shark, but from a heart attack according to his wife Jeanette.

The Monster Man’s own words sum up perfectly a life said to have inspired the movie “Jaws” and its roguish Captain Quint, played by the late Robert Shaw. Mundus died Wednesday of complications from a heart attack suffered Sept. 6, just after he returned to his Hawaii home from a fishing trip in Montauk. He was 82.

“He wanted to be remembered as a pioneer in his sport,” said Mundus’ wife of 20 years, Jeanette, 46. “He was an extrovert, a straight shooter. He never held back.”

Mundus and fishing partner Donnie Braddick caught a record setting 3,427 pound shark by rod and reel back in 1986.  He put Montauk, New York on the map.