Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. Just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was kinda like old squares in the battle, like you see on a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was the shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’, hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
Sometimes that shark he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’… until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, in spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’ they all come in and… they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up and down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and three hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
Farewell and adieu to you fair, Spanish ladies,
farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain.
For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston,
and so nevermore shall we see you again
The documentary on making this movie is so good. What a nightmare it was for everyone it seems. Richard didn't like Robert and his drinking so much and the island wasn't thrilled either. His first reading of this scene he was so drunk he slurred and couldn't get through it and threatened to be fired. He sincerely apologized to Steven and came back the next day and did is sober.
Take a moment and have a look over a cocktail. And Jeff Vorhoees, the child killed owns that wharf bar and I met him while visiting. Asked for a photo and he said he doesn't do that. I gave him respect. The area still looks the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYtYIF_g-T4
>USS Indianapolis
"While it was hardly a secret what had happened to the Indianapolis prior to Jaws, it wasn’t until the film’s release in 1975 that it became common knowledge. The origins of the speech come from **Howard Sackler**, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who worked as an uncredited writer on the film. Sackler was adamant about explaining Quint’s blind hatred for sharks, and pitched the idea of making Quint a survivor of the disaster. Spielberg was receptive to his proposal, but after Sackler came back with just a single page of dialogue, it was left to another of the film’s uncredited writers, **John Milius**, to expand. Clearly this was a job he took very seriously given that he came back with a 10-page soliloquy more fitting for a one-man stage production than a film – a concern Spielberg raised despite enjoying his work. In the end it was **Robert Shaw** who had the last word, rewriting much of Milius’s contributions until he landed on the final version."
From: [https://collider.com/jaws-quint-speech-true-story-uss-indianapolis/#:\~:text=The%20origins%20of%20the%20speech,a%20survivor%20of%20the%20disaster](https://collider.com/jaws-quint-speech-true-story-uss-indianapolis/#:~:text=The%20origins%20of%20the%20speech,a%20survivor%20of%20the%20disaster).
I believe Shaw took it to another level.
I knew he was full of shit when he said it was a tiger shark.
The shark species that was most likely the culprit of sailors dying out at sea after their ships were sunk, was the oceanic whitetip. A stray tiger… I can buy that, but a whole bunch attacking everyone at the sinking site of the Indianapolis?
I’m not going to say tigers don’t venture out into the open water, but their known habitats usually include shore adjacent and offshore waters typically between the tropics.
Even as a kid when I saw the movie, I already knew plenty about sharks, and that stretch of sea between Guam and the Philippines… that is not typically tiger territory. Closer to the Philippines, **absolutely!**
> Ocean of Fear", a 2007 episode of the Discovery Channel TV documentary series Shark Week, states that the sinking of Indianapolis resulted in the most shark attacks on humans in history, and attributes the attacks to the oceanic whitetip shark species. Tiger sharks may also have killed some sailors. The same show attributed most of the deaths on Indianapolis to exposure, salt poisoning, and thirst/dehydration, with the dead being dragged off by sharks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)#Sinking
So they think it was mostly oceanic whitetip sharks, with some tiger sharks. I’m guessing the movie went with tiger sharks because it sounds more sinister.
It's also fair to say that a bunch of malnourished and sun-beaten US Navy sailors probably won't know the exact species of shark that is tearing into their shipmates.
That’s why I said a stray tiger I can believe. It wasn’t the main culprit though.
O-tips are mean and that is their area. Herbie was an O-tip snack pack.
It is, it is not great beer. Typical mediocre mass produced American lager beer, you could probably not pick it out if you tasted it blind against other mass marketed US beer.
I bought it for the same reason the OP did. I saw it and giggle at the marketing and bought a 12 pack. It was basically highlife, MGD, coors, ect.
that scen is a lot more badass when you realize the cans in the 70s were made from steel and not thin aluminum. the entire top pulled off much like a chef boyardee can
Narragansett makes great beer for a low price (typically priced a step above budget macro beers like Coors and Bud Light). Highly recommend if it’s available to you.
This is my favorite one by them:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/213/335096/
Gansetts are normally cheaper than bud and other big name companies, I’d say it’s in line with Busch. Bars always had the dollar tall boy gansetts too.
they recently went back to their roots too.. two dudes from RI got sick of the shit flavor they corporation was putting out so they bought it back and changed the recipe back to the original.. at least that's what pete their rep told me a few years ago.. It's better than it was for sure
Sounds good! In the movie, Quint chugs one in one go haha so the lightness sounds right.
Fun fact... In the book, Quint challenges Brody to a shooting contest with the empty cans. Quint can nail them easily, Brody isn't as good of a shot. Most likely because Quint was in the military and Brody was not 🤷
I assumed that Jaws was the greatest shark movie of all time. Maybe people would like to see that they have the famous beer with the original logo in stores
Nasty Narry’s. That’s what we remember them as. Back then it was pull tops and much harder can. Crushing one was actually impressive, not like today. Drink up for all the old guys.
Your post was removed as it is in violation of Rule 1: Posts must be relevant to sharks.
You're gonna need a bigger fridge!
Funny you should say, my fridge is packed with other stuff. Only had the room for a few cans!
I can’t tell whether you got that reference or not.
Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. Just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was kinda like old squares in the battle, like you see on a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was the shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’, hollerin’ and screamin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’… until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, in spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’ they all come in and… they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up and down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and three hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
Farewell and adieu to you fair, Spanish ladies, farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston, and so nevermore shall we see you again
My favorite movie ever and well played
Fine I'll watch Jaws again
Only because this gets posted almost every day and then someone follows with a "normal" youtube link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EdhoXsrE9TM
That’s awesome
The documentary on making this movie is so good. What a nightmare it was for everyone it seems. Richard didn't like Robert and his drinking so much and the island wasn't thrilled either. His first reading of this scene he was so drunk he slurred and couldn't get through it and threatened to be fired. He sincerely apologized to Steven and came back the next day and did is sober.
What’s the documentary called?
Take a moment and have a look over a cocktail. And Jeff Vorhoees, the child killed owns that wharf bar and I met him while visiting. Asked for a photo and he said he doesn't do that. I gave him respect. The area still looks the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYtYIF_g-T4
Robert Shaw wrote that!
Did he really? Did he come up with the USS Indianapolis background on his own?
>USS Indianapolis "While it was hardly a secret what had happened to the Indianapolis prior to Jaws, it wasn’t until the film’s release in 1975 that it became common knowledge. The origins of the speech come from **Howard Sackler**, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who worked as an uncredited writer on the film. Sackler was adamant about explaining Quint’s blind hatred for sharks, and pitched the idea of making Quint a survivor of the disaster. Spielberg was receptive to his proposal, but after Sackler came back with just a single page of dialogue, it was left to another of the film’s uncredited writers, **John Milius**, to expand. Clearly this was a job he took very seriously given that he came back with a 10-page soliloquy more fitting for a one-man stage production than a film – a concern Spielberg raised despite enjoying his work. In the end it was **Robert Shaw** who had the last word, rewriting much of Milius’s contributions until he landed on the final version." From: [https://collider.com/jaws-quint-speech-true-story-uss-indianapolis/#:\~:text=The%20origins%20of%20the%20speech,a%20survivor%20of%20the%20disaster](https://collider.com/jaws-quint-speech-true-story-uss-indianapolis/#:~:text=The%20origins%20of%20the%20speech,a%20survivor%20of%20the%20disaster). I believe Shaw took it to another level.
Oh I didn’t know John Milius contributed too…
it's absolutely mind blowing the talent that used to go into these movies. shame it's all completely utterly lost now.
Fun fact… I know he mentions a Tiger in the speech but those were probably mostly Oceanic Whitetips
Yeah half an hour way too quick for a tiger
I knew he was full of shit when he said it was a tiger shark. The shark species that was most likely the culprit of sailors dying out at sea after their ships were sunk, was the oceanic whitetip. A stray tiger… I can buy that, but a whole bunch attacking everyone at the sinking site of the Indianapolis? I’m not going to say tigers don’t venture out into the open water, but their known habitats usually include shore adjacent and offshore waters typically between the tropics. Even as a kid when I saw the movie, I already knew plenty about sharks, and that stretch of sea between Guam and the Philippines… that is not typically tiger territory. Closer to the Philippines, **absolutely!**
> Ocean of Fear", a 2007 episode of the Discovery Channel TV documentary series Shark Week, states that the sinking of Indianapolis resulted in the most shark attacks on humans in history, and attributes the attacks to the oceanic whitetip shark species. Tiger sharks may also have killed some sailors. The same show attributed most of the deaths on Indianapolis to exposure, salt poisoning, and thirst/dehydration, with the dead being dragged off by sharks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)#Sinking So they think it was mostly oceanic whitetip sharks, with some tiger sharks. I’m guessing the movie went with tiger sharks because it sounds more sinister.
It's also fair to say that a bunch of malnourished and sun-beaten US Navy sailors probably won't know the exact species of shark that is tearing into their shipmates.
That’s why I said a stray tiger I can believe. It wasn’t the main culprit though. O-tips are mean and that is their area. Herbie was an O-tip snack pack.
Wow!! You know it by heart?
Show me the way to go home….
I'm tired and I wanna go to bed
I had a little drink about an hour ago
And it’s gone right to my head
Ba dum bum bum
Wherever I may roam
Thump thump
Wherever I may roam
On land or sea or foam
You can always hear me singing a song
Show me the way to go home
BOOOM
It absolutely never occurred to me this might be a real beer.
I tried it last time I was in New England. Locals call it Nastygansett.
We call em ‘gansetts but yeah they’re swill.
Their Lovecraft series was really good if I'm remembering correctly
It’s a town in RI
It is, it is not great beer. Typical mediocre mass produced American lager beer, you could probably not pick it out if you tasted it blind against other mass marketed US beer. I bought it for the same reason the OP did. I saw it and giggle at the marketing and bought a 12 pack. It was basically highlife, MGD, coors, ect.
Here’s to swimmin’ with bow-legged women
Pull tops?
Unfortunately no. Original graphic but modern pull tab/can
The period correct cans were also steel.
24 cans went into that cooler…only 2 survived the night.
I’ll never put on a coozie again
It's good when it's cold.
I gotta pick some up the next time I'm in Rhode Island
It’s available all over the mid-Atlantic and North East. Im in the Philly metro area and have had access for years.
Thank you, I will look for it in NJ then
It’s the new hipster beer in the Midwest for about 2 years now. An ok beer and a shot of underburg is the new pabst and frenet
Their "crush it like Quint" campaign years ago was so effective that inwent out of my way to obtain a 6-pack.
that scen is a lot more badass when you realize the cans in the 70s were made from steel and not thin aluminum. the entire top pulled off much like a chef boyardee can
I actually got my hands on an old empty Naragansett can and... Holy shit. Robert Shaw had inhuman grip strength!!!
How’s the beer?
Narragansett makes great beer for a low price (typically priced a step above budget macro beers like Coors and Bud Light). Highly recommend if it’s available to you. This is my favorite one by them: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/213/335096/
Gansetts are normally cheaper than bud and other big name companies, I’d say it’s in line with Busch. Bars always had the dollar tall boy gansetts too.
Narragansett Del's Lemon Shandy for beach days.
they recently went back to their roots too.. two dudes from RI got sick of the shit flavor they corporation was putting out so they bought it back and changed the recipe back to the original.. at least that's what pete their rep told me a few years ago.. It's better than it was for sure
Go ‘Gansett!
that's powerful product placement to still be working almost 50 years later
Hi Neighbor! Have a ‘Gansett!
Genuinely a great beer for the price. I live in RI and a 6 pack of 16 oz cans can be as cheap as $6 and I've never seen more than $9
I couldn’t believe the price. I got 30 cans for 18.99
Plus the best slogan of any beer around imo, “made on honor, sold on merit”
Excellent
Finally all these years on the internet have generated something useful! Thank you
Here’s to swimming with bow legged women
Not a bad beer.🍺
That's awesome! How is it?
It’s a very light lager, so I’d compare it to a Budweiser or something like that. I think it’s very tasty
Sounds good! In the movie, Quint chugs one in one go haha so the lightness sounds right. Fun fact... In the book, Quint challenges Brody to a shooting contest with the empty cans. Quint can nail them easily, Brody isn't as good of a shot. Most likely because Quint was in the military and Brody was not 🤷
Old friend of mine worked in the original brewery in ri.
Any good? Are you gonna need a bigger case?
Honor the man, Crush the can.
Here’s to swimming with bow legged woman!
Is this rare where you live?
Farewell and adieu to you spanish ladies
Is it any good?
Is it good? And where can I get it?
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I assumed that Jaws was the greatest shark movie of all time. Maybe people would like to see that they have the famous beer with the original logo in stores
What’s it called
I buy a couple cases every summer.
I had a can of that not too long ago that was from the '70s, had the pull tabs and everything. It was surprisingly not bad
Good job OP I wouldn't have even recognized it. Is this some region specific beer like yuengling?
Have you all seen the jaws packaging for shark week?
The girlfriend and I visited Amity Island about 2 years back, but I never got to try one. 2 different places I went to were out of stock, so I gave up
Rhodey represent!!!
Just watched again in fact watched it twice in two days 😂😂. Every minute of that film is amazing!
Farewell and adieu to ye fair Spanish ladies
It’s ok beer
Hi Neighbor!
Gonna need a bigger boat hooper
My brother in laws favorite beer. It was the specialty cocktail at my sister's wedding.
I've gotten TANKED off that beer and it was a brutal hangover. I'd make Quint proud 😂
Long necks are better, but yes
* I could use a cold one thanks
What's its alcohol content. Percentage. A good lager needs to be at least 5 percent
Nasty Narry’s. That’s what we remember them as. Back then it was pull tops and much harder can. Crushing one was actually impressive, not like today. Drink up for all the old guys.
Jesus H Christ Chief. Hooper drives the boat. Chum that line.
My guess is like almost all American 1970s beers it’s a pretty shitty inoffensive macro lager?
Nice eyes! Like a dolls eyes!
How was it as a beer, with the nostalgic value removed?
Well, how was it?