Jaws (novel) day, the shark starts ramming the boat. Quint is able to harpoon it several times. The shark leaps out of the water and onto the stern of the "Orca", ripping a huge hole in the aft section and causing the boat to start sinking. Quint plunges another harpoon into the shark's belly, but as it falls back into the water, his foot gets entangled in the rope, and he is dragged underwater to his death. Brody, now floating on a seat cushion, spots the shark swimming towards him and prepares for his death. However, just as the shark gets within
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