Jaws: 9 Easters Eggs You Never Noticed

9. Quint's Boat Is Aptly Named

The great white shark is one of the most feared animals on the planet, with no natural predators to speak of. Well, except for one: the killer whale, an animal that's basically the schoolyard bully of the ocean. So it’s no coincidence that Quint dubbed his vessel The Orca, after the only animal capable of taking down a great white. 

What it says that the shark ends up destroying the boat is left up to the viewer to decide.

It’s interesting to note that after the success of Jaws a wave of rip-offs followed, with one of the most blatant being the Richard Harris movie Orca: The Killer Whale. Not to be bested, the makers of Jaws 2 took a playful jab at that film with a scene featuring the chewed up body of an Orca Whale being found on a beach, the victim of a “greater” predator.