According to the boat handlers who worked on the film, Quint's boat, "Orca", was a studio fabrication based upon a boat purchased locally. After the special effects team finished with it, it was so top-heavy as to be unseaworthy. Ballast would correct that, but the only large quantity of lead that could be located locally was owned by a local dentist who was going to use it to shield his X-Ray room. So that was rented from him at an exorbitant fee. The fake Orca, designed to sink, was actually more seaworthy than the real thing.
An accident during filming caused the Orca to begin sinking. Steven Spielberg began screaming over a bullhorn for the nearby safety boats to rescue the actors. A sound technician, already up to his knees in water on the sinking Orca, held his tape recorder up over his head and screamed, "F**k the actors, save the sound crew!" Divers later recovered the camera and flew it, still submerged in sea water, to a Hollywood film lab where technicians were able to save the film.
2007-08-07 03:13:24
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answered by Anonymous
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The shark ate it and then the man blew up the shark by shooting an oxygen tank which it had tried to eat. that pretty much put paid to the boat!
2007-08-05 13:53:53
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answered by Anonymous
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Like the others have said Bloody great big shark with an apatite for small boats and humans
2007-08-05 20:35:21
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answered by McCanns are guilty 7
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The shark rammed it in the side and it began to sink ,
2007-08-05 13:34:18
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answered by JT B ford man 6
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I agree with the shark answer. He ram a hole and then use his weight on the Back/Stearn to bring her down. Actually a smart shark. ;-)
2007-08-05 13:57:43
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answered by Snaglefritz 7
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Put large weights in side an filled it with water.
2007-08-06 04:14:48
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answered by 45 auto 7
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They rammed a huge f*ckin shark into the back of it.
2007-08-05 13:30:32
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answered by Thinker 4
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didnt you watcht he film?
A big @$$ shark tore everything to shreds.
2007-08-06 05:09:09
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answered by Anonymous
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That was a shark I thought it was Nemo!
2007-08-05 15:37:22
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answered by fin73 4
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I take it you've just been watching jaws.
2007-08-05 13:31:12
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answered by LoveBeingAMum 5
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