[Cheburashka]

...Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It 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 12 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. Well, what we didn’t know ‘cause our bomb mission had been so secret: No distress signal had been sent. Huh-huh. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. ”

—Quint from Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film Jaws

[mainepatsfan]

The Discovery Channel kicks off it’s 20th anniversary of Shark Week with an episode dealing with this event. It’s not going to be a pleasant viewing experience.

[6SJ7]

One of my favorite scenes from a favorite movie.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Remainder of the movie quote:

“Very first light, chief, sharks came cruising, so we formed ourselves into tight groups… you know, kind of like old squares in a battle like you see in a calendar, like the battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and then you start pounding and hollering and screaming. Sometimes the shark goes, sometimes he wouldn’t go away… I don’t know how many sharks. Maybe a thousand, I don’t know how many men, they averaged six an hour…
Noon the fifth day, Mr Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low… and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down, starts to pick us up…
So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out and the sharks took the rest, June 29th 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.””

[DogByte6RER]

JAWS - U.S.S. Indianapolis Speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USnM-ee06pg

Note : The only error Robert Shaw made in this scene was saying the date June 29, 1945. The actual date of the Indianapolis disaster was July 29-30, 1945.