Open Water

Continuity mistake: During the scene in which the two main characters are diving, before the boat leaves them, Susan's snorkel swaps from the left side of her mask to the right and back again.

Continuity mistake: In one scene where the husband looks under water to see where the sharks are he gets startled and raises up out of the water. As his face comes up he removes his mask. The camera angle changes and in the next shot you see him removing his mask again. (00:50:20)

Continuity mistake: When Susan and Daniel are in bed, Susan puts her glasses on the table then turns around, and her blanket changes position between two consecutive shots. (00:07:30)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Susan and Daniel are making out in bed she starts laughing and says "Nice face." You can see Daniel's nose is clean. When it cuts his nose is covered with face mask stains from Susan's face. (00:07:55)

Mortug

Continuity mistake: When Susan says "I'm just gonna look, OK?" she puts the snorkel in her mouth, however in the next shot underwater, she has the regulator in her mouth, not the snorkel. (00:33:35 - 00:34:10)

brianwu21

Audio problem: When the couple is flying to their vacation destination, they are in a Turbo-Prop aircraft. The sound affect used was from a piston engined aircraft.

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Susan: I can't even believe you'd bring that up right now. You were the one who picked the dates.
Daniel: Oh yeah, of my whopping two choices - this was the better date.

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Trivia: No digital- or special effects were used in the film. The actors were in the water with real live sharks.

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Suggested correction: You can see the edges of the pool the actors are in when there are "ships" on the horizon.

Not true. The film was shot on location, for three weeks, off the coast of The Bahamas. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2004/08/open-water-sharks-fear-real/#close.

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Question: After the tour guide takes the bad head count when they all get on the boat, you can see him counting them all again. Why didn't he notice right then that 2 people were missing? Also, the diving company was missing 2 scuba tanks and they didn't notice?

Answer: The whole idea with the movie was the bad count. Nobody knows why he counted wrong.

Mortug

Answer: He counted wrong because the man that begged to go back in and the other person accompanied him in the water were already counted for before going back down last minute so when he saw two people coming back up he tallied 20 people.

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