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Brody:
What's that one?Quint:What?Brody:That one, there, on your arm.Quint:Oh, uh, that's a tattoo, I got that removed.Hooper:Don't tell me, don't tell me..."Mother."Hooper:What is it...Quint:Mr. Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis.Hooper:You were on the Indianapolis?Brody:What happened?Quint:Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Heh.Quint:They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y'know, it's... kinda like ol' squares in a battle like, uh, you see in a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin', and sometimes the shark'd go away... sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces.Quint:Y'know, by the end of that first dawn... lost a hundred men. I dunno how many sharks. Maybe a thousand. I dunno how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland- baseball player, boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up... bobbed up and down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. Young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, Eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.Quint:Anyway... we delivered the bomb
What's that one?Quint:What?Brody:That one, there, on your arm.Quint:Oh, uh, that's a tattoo, I got that removed.Hooper:Don't tell me, don't tell me..."Mother."Hooper:What is it...Quint:Mr. Hooper, that's the USS Indianapolis.Hooper:You were on the Indianapolis?Brody:What happened?Quint:Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Heh.Quint:They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y'know, it's... kinda like ol' squares in a battle like, uh, you see in a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin', and sometimes the shark'd go away... sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces.Quint:Y'know, by the end of that first dawn... lost a hundred men. I dunno how many sharks. Maybe a thousand. I dunno how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland- baseball player, boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up... bobbed up and down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. Young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, Eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.Quint:Anyway... we delivered the bomb
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You know how you know that when you're in the water Chief
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You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail
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Well we didn't know
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Because our bomb mission had been so secret
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no distress signal had been sent
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They didn't even list us overdue for a week
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Very first light sharks come cruising
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so we formed ourselves into tight groups
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You know kind of like old squares
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in a battle like you see on a calendar
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like the Battle of Waterloo The idea was
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the shark comes to the nearest man
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and he starts pounding hollering and screaming
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Sometimes the shark would go away
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but sometimes he wouldn't go away
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Sometimes that shark he looks right into you right into your eyes
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You know a thing about a shark he's got
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lifeless eyes Black eyes like a doll's eyes
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When he comes at you he doesn't seem to be living
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until he bites you Those black eyes roll over white and then
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Then you hear that terrible high pitched screaming
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The ocean turns red
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In spite of the pounding and the hollering they all come in
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They rip you to pieces
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You know by the end of that first dawn
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we lost 100 men
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I don't know how many sharks Maybe 1 000
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I don't know how many men they averaged six an hour
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On Thursday morning I bumped into a friend of mine
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Herbie Robinson from Cleveland
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Baseball player bosun's mate
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I thought he was asleep Reached over to wake him up
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He bobbed up and down in the water just like a kind of top
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Upended
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He'd been bitten in half below the waist
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Noon the fifth day a Lockheed Ventura saw us
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He swung in low and he saw us He was a young pilot
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Younger than Mr Hooper
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He saw us and he came in low and three hours later
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a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up
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That was the time I was most frightened
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Waiting for my turn
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I'll never put on a life jacket again
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So 1 100 men went into the water
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Movie Summary
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
