Corrected entry: Shortly after the ferry leaves, the captain looks out his window to see a tripod underwater. It bursts out of the water. This tripod would malfunction and die right away, as at the end of the movie we find out that the tripods are dying because of small organisms in the water.
shorty30490
22nd Jul 2005
Correction: The tripods actually died because they caught disease that men have immunities too. It would take a while for the disease to work its way into the alien's system and kill it.
shorty30490