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We watched Jaws again earlier in the week. It’s one of the few ‘classic’ movies I’ve seen and I love it. It’s a masterclass of suspense which outclasses a movie like The Birds so easily it’s hard to believe it was so early in his career. The framing of camera shots and the use of silence help make me jump every time, even though I know what’s going to happen next!

In a case of life imitating art do these quotes remind you of anything?

Cornish shark conservationist Richard Peirce, who saw the footage, said the possibility it was a Great White could not be ruled out. He said: “If one accepts that White sharks are occasional vagrant visitors in UK waters, these animals could not be ruled out.”

Coastguards have dismissed the claims as “scare-mongering”. A spokesman for Falmouth Coastguard said “The poor tourist industry this year is having a really hard time. The last thing we need is scare-mongering over some footage.”

They are taken from the BBC article Great White sighting ‘possible’ and you wonder if the spokesman from the Falmouth Coastguard as ever seen Jaws. I don’t know if there’s a Great White out there or not, but do you really want to tempt fate like Larry Vaughn?

Finally as a side issue, am I the only one who thinks that the BBC Cornwall icon, which presumably shows the Eden Project, looks like a pair of stylised buttocks?

Probably…