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RIP Ron Taylor (JAWS)


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With the recent release of Jaws on Blu-Ray our excitement about this fantastic release has been tempered with the sad passing of Ron Taylor in Sydney on 9 Sep 2012 after a 2 year battle with leukemia. He was aged 78.

RIP Ron

Thank you for educating the world about sharks.

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Hmmmm, I guess no one really knows who Ron Taylor was then. Well, that was my mistake for thinking you people might actually be interested in knowing that he died.

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Ron Taylor, from Blue Water White Death, married to fellow diver Valerie Taylor also of Blue Water White Death.

Together they filmed live Great White Sharks for the underwater sequence of Jaws.

Because of a snafu during their filming and again a happy accident (Jaws had more happy accidents than most films), the script for Jaws was rewritten to allow Matt Hooper to survive instead of dying as original written for the book and planned for the film.

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