Jaws (film) of a shark is simulated, the real shark enters a nearby estuary, killing a boater and causing Brody's oldest son, Michael, to go into shock. Brody then convinces Vaughn to hire Quint. Quint, Brody, and Hooper set out on Quint's boat, the "Orca", to hunt the shark. While Brody lays down a chum line, Quint waits for an opportunity to hook the shark. Without warning, it appears behind the boat. Quint, estimating its length at and weight at 3 tons, harpoons it with a line attached to a flotation barrel, but the shark pulls the barrel underwater and disappears. At
Copper shark the British Museum". The earliest name was once thought to be Auguste Duméril's 1865 "Carcharias remotus", until it was found that the type specimen associated with that name is actually a blacknose shark ("C. acronotus"). Thus, this shark was often referred to as "C. remotus" in older literature. An even earlier name, Richard Owen's 1853 "Galeolamna greyi", is of questionable taxonomic status as it was based solely on a set of now-destroyed jaws that may or may not have belonged to a copper shark. Modern authors have assigned this species to the genus "Carcharhinus". The specific epithet "brachyurus" is derived