No shark?

Magus said:

No shark?

Why sharks?

Magus said:

No shark?

Sharks come later after she sinks. The crew had it bad.

Unlucky.Dice said:

Why sharks?

Pop culturally, because Jaws.

Quint, the shark hunter, had as his backstory/reason for obsession for sharks that he was onboard the USS Indianapolis when it sank. You can read what happened with the sharks here.

Also note that this image has a nuclear symbol, referencing the fact that Indianapolis delivered parts for the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima to Tinian.

NWSiaCB said:

Pop culturally, because Jaws.

Quint, the shark hunter, had as his backstory/reason for obsession for sharks that he was onboard the USS Indianapolis when it sank. You can read what happened with the sharks here.

Also note that this image has a nuclear symbol, referencing the fact that Indianapolis delivered parts for the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima to Tinian.

That...is an interesting trivia.
Could that event be the Jaws' inspiration?

Sacriven said:

That...is an interesting trivia.
Could that event be the Jaws' inspiration?

No, that would be the New Jersey shark attacks of 1916.

The USS Indianapolis reference was just to tie Quint into a reason to have already hated sharks.