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
Jaws (franchise) Brody's environmentalist concerns are effectively ridiculed as his colleague is eaten by the enraged fish; he joins the hunt for it and the shark in turn hunts him down." Many films based on man-eating animals (usually aquatic) were released throughout the 1970s and the 1980s such as: "Grizzly", "", "Day of the Animals", "Orca" (also known as "Orca: The Killer Whale"), "Eaten Alive", "The Pack", "", "Baracuda", "Nightwing", "Up from the Depths", "Humanoids from the Deep" (also known as "Monster"), "Alligator", "Blood Beach", "Creature", the Italian-American "Tentacles", the Mexican "Tintorera" (also known as "Tintorera: Killer Shark"), the Italian "Island of