There is a cliché in the newspaper business that says when a dog bites man it isn't news, but, when man bites dog, Stop the Presses and rewrite the front page! The same holds true in Blood 'N Bubble movies. When a shark bites a character in a Blood 'N' Bubble it isn't noteworthy, but, when a man kills a shark on film, well, cinematic news is made.

There are a few blockbuster Blood ‘N’ Bubble movies - Jaws, First Strike, The Spy Who Loved Me and Deep Blue Sea - where the shark protagonist is actually dispatched by the hero. Can you remember exactly how the shark gets it in these four famous films?

The answers are at the bottom of the quiz. And, if you really know your Blood ‘N’ Bubblers check out our bonus question (it is a tough one), send us your answer, and you may win a free subscription to Diver Magazine. Contest closes December 15, 2007.

The movie Jaws was released in 1975 and starred Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss. Scheider plays Martin Brody, a water-fearing, ex-New York City cop who is now the chief of police on Amity Island. When a Great White starts feeding on tourists and townspeople alike, Scheider, Shaw and Dreyfuss set out to kill Jaws. Do you know how the shark was killed?

1. Local shark hunter (Robert Shaw as Quint) pulls the pin on a grenade just as Jaws swallows him

2. Brody lures Jaws into biting on high voltage power line dangling just above the surface of the Atlantic Ocean

3. Marine scientist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfus) harpoons Jaw with a poison dart

4. Martin Brody shots a scuba tank lodged in Jaw’s jaws. It explodes blowing Jaws head apart

5. The shark gets away – sequel warning!

Deep Blue Sea

On a remote top-secret floating research station, a team of scientists, divers and millionaires (Samuel Jackson, Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane and LL Cool J are searching for a cure for Alzheimer's disease using sharks and upsized DNA. New Line Cinema marketed the sharks in Deep Blue Sea (1999) as being Bigger. Smarter. Faster. Meaner. Maybe so, but three genetically modified Mako Sharks are effectively dispatched by scientists stuck in a sinking underwater laboratory as bad weather approaches. Do you know how the third Mako the biggest and meanest of them all becomes cinematic sushi?

1. Saffron Burrows (Dr. Susan McCallister) harpoons Mako-Jaws with a poison dart

2. Mad scientist Stellan Skarsgård (Jim Whitlock) pulls the pin on a grenade just as Mako-Jaws swallows him

3. LL Cool J (Sherman 'Preacher' Dudley) while being swallowed by the Mako, stabs it in the eyes with a crucifix.

4. LL Cool J is the human bait to get the shark to swim near a high voltage power line (cooked sushi)

5. The giant Mako gets away – sequel warning!

Jackie Chan’s First Strike

By 1996 Jackie Chan movies had become big bloated blockbusters that required filming all over the world. In First Strike, Jackie Chan plays Jackie, a Hong Kong policeman who travels the world trying to locate a missing nuclear bomb. His travels take him from fighting/skiing down Russian mountains to fighting/swimming in an Australian shark tank (in reality the Underwater World, Mooloolaba Queensland Australia. While inside the aquarium tank Jackie must, while holding his breath, fight off spear toting bad guy divers and hungry sharks. How are the sharks dispatched?

1. Jackie kung-fu’s a harpoon away from a bad guy and shoots an aggressive shark

2. The bad guys shoot spears at Jacky, who ducks and they hit the sharks

3. The bad guys shoot out an aquarium window and the sharks are left to die high and dry

4. Jackie lures the shark into a high voltage cable

5. The sharks aren’t killed – Sequel warning.

The Spy Who Loved Me

In action movies diving and sharks are often used to create drama, suspense and, if the shark bites, horror. It is not surprising that many of the James Bond films include pivotal scenes that include scuba diving and man-eating sharks. In the 1977 movie, The Spy Who Loved Me (the 10 in the 007 series) crime mastermind Karl Stromberg keeps a woman-eating Tiger Shark in Atlantis, his underwater base. When Stromberg isn’t stealing submarines and their nuclear warheads, he is feeding both friends and foes to the hungry shark. In one important scene the Tiger takes on a human and loses. How?

1. Roger Moore (James Bond) fires a mini-harpoon from his ballpoint pen and kills the Tiger

2. Curd Jürgens’ (Karl Stromberg) giant henchman Jaws (Richard Kiel) bites the Tiger on its neck with his stainless steel teeth.

3. David Hedison (US CIA agent Felix Leiter) is fed to the shark feet first.  When the Tiger bites into his leg it fires off Leiter’s ankle gun into the roof of his mouth.

4. Roger Moore (James Bond) throws an electric fan into the shark pool electrocuting the shark.

5. Barbara Bach (Russian spy Anya Amasova) wrestles the controls for a high powered laser gun away from Stromberg and turns it on the shark just before it dines on Bond sushi.

ANSWERS

Jaws - #4 Martin Brody shots a scuba tank lodged in Jaw’s jaws. It explodes blowing Jaws head apart.

Deep Blue Sea - #4 LL Cool J is the human bait to get the shark to swim near a high voltage power line (cooked sushi)

Jackie Chan’s First Strike - #3 The bad guys shoot out an aquarium window and the sharks are left to die high and dry.

The Spy Who Loved Me – Man indeed bites shark. #2 Curd Jürgens’ (Karl Stomberg) giant henchman Jaws (Richard Kiel) bites the Tiger on the neck with his stainless steel teeth.

BONUS QUESTION

This movie didn’t make it onto many movie screens before it faded in obscurity. Blood ‘N’ Bubble aficionados will have to do a bit of B Movie Diving in the local sales bin to now see this black comedy. Some of this 1992 movie was shot underwater in the US Virgin Islands. One of the most memorable scenes has three spies in scuba gear chasing a zombie who is walking on the bottom of the ocean wearing a trench coat and a Sony Walkman. The zombie actually gets out of the water and into the air by parasailing with a 6 ft shark biting his feet. The shark falls back into the ocean, probably not to his death but rather into the Green Room to wait for the sequel that never came. Enter to win one of five free one-year subscriptions by naming the movie starring Andrew McCarthy, Terry Kiser and an unnamed high flying shark. Winner will be chosen at random from all correct entries. Contest closes December 15, 2007.