How did they sink the boat in the jaws 1 film?
According to the boat handlers who worked on the film, Quint’s boat, “Orca”, was a studio fabrication based upon a boat purchased locally. After the special effects team finished with it, it was so top-heavy as to be unseaworthy. Ballast would correct that, but the only large quantity of lead that could be located locally was owned by a local dentist who was going to use it to shield his X-Ray room. So that was rented from him at an exorbitant fee. The fake Orca, designed to sink, was actually more seaworthy than the real thing. An accident during filming caused the Orca to begin sinking. Steven Spielberg began screaming over a bullhorn for the nearby safety boats to rescue the actors. A sound technician, already up to his knees in water on the sinking Orca, held his tape recorder up over his head and screamed, “F**k the actors, save the sound crew!” Divers later recovered the camera and flew it, still submerged in sea water, to a Hollywood film lab where technicians were able to save
