By Gina Pace AP February 12, 2006, 10:28 PM. ** FILE ** Peter Benchley, who wrote the book Jaws 30 years ago, points at a Scalloped Hammerhead shark as a Galapagos shark swims in background at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's new Sharks: Myth and Mystery exhibit in Monterey, Calif., Thursday, April 1, 2004.