Quint: Y'all know me, know how I earn a living. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't going to be easy. Bad fish! Not like gong down to the pond and chasing bluegills or tommy-cods. This shark swallow you whole! Little shaking, little tenderizing, down you go. Now we've got to do it quick. That'll bring back the tourists and will put all your businesses on a paying basis. But it's not going to be pleasant! I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, Chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him and kill him for ten. Now you've got to make up your minds. Want to stay alive, then ante up! You want to play it cheap? Be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. Was coming back from the island of Tinian Del Lady, 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 half an hour. Tiger, thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. But we didn't know. Our bomb mission had been so secret. No distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light Chief, sharks come cruising. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, kind of like old squares in a battle, like you see on a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was shark come to the nearest man and he starts pounding, hollering and screaming, sometimes the shark would go away, sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you, right into your eyes.
Suggested correction: When Hooper uses the knife to pry to tooth out, it took very little effort, suggesting that the tooth wasn't wedged into that spot, but merely just resting in that spot.
The shark tooth was inserted into the wood by the prop crew with its flat root side down, which would have been impossible to have occurred during the attack on the hull. As to the statement that the tooth was "merely just resting in that spot" then Hooper would not have needed to use the blade to remove it from the wood, plus the fact that since it was underwater it would have floated away during the hours after the attack. But it did not float away, so it must have been at the very least snugly fit into the wood hull. Still impossible.
Super Grover ★
The original mistake says that the root of the tooth was embedded In the wood. Not possible since it should be the sharp end in the wood and the root showing on top (as described in the mistake).
Ssiscool ★