it was actually filmed before tourist season on Martha's Vinyard (if you look closely, you will notice the tree leaves are not quite out).
The people on the beach were wearing coats until they started to film, at which point they pretended it was warm outside.
NatGeo notes: Many locals had minor rolls. Indeed, the story put Martha's vineyard island on the map for tourists.
and it is almost a coincidence it was filmed there
[Production designer] Joe Alves chose the Vineyard only because the boats weren't running to Nantucket that day. So he said, 'Well, I’ll take it where it's going.' And he came over to the Vineyard.
by the way, the mechanical shark was named Bruce, and they couldn't get it to work correctly, so in most of the film, the danger is unseen, which actually made it more frightening (if the shark worked, it would have just been another shocker film, not a classic).
and although it was based on Peter Benchley's novel, the idea came from a real shark attack:
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