Open Water Trivia Quiz

Answer: laptop

We see that Daniel and Susan are busy people because they're both talking on their cell phones about their jobs just before they leave on their vacation. Daniel asks Susan if she's sure she wants to bring the laptop, and mentions that they don't know if they'll have internet connections at the hotel. Susan tells him that she's already checked it out and found that they will.

Answer: 20

Susan and Daniel have gone to a tropical island for vacation. Susan returns to their hotel room to find Daniel using the laptop he didn't want her to bring along. She tells him they're all set for in the morning and they have to be at the dock at 8:30 for the dive boat. There were 20 divers and three dive operators on the boat.

Answer: mask

This diver inadvertently causes the error in the count which causes Susan and Daniel to be left behind. The dive operators make their head count by making a mark for each diver when they are back on the boat. One mark is made for the diver who couldn't go down because he forgot his mask.

A couple comes out of the water early because she couldn't equalize her ears. The dive operator makes two marks for them, making a total of three. The diver who forgot his mask asks the girl if he can use her mask to dive, but the dive operator says he can't go down without a buddy.

He convinces the guy who came up early to dive with him. When they come up again, the dive operator counts them again without having marked them off when they dived. So Susan and Daniel aren't missed because the count looks correct.

Answer: 2

When Susan and Daniel surface, Susan asks Daniel where the boat is because there is nothing in their immediate vicinity. They can see two boats in different directions and at first aren't too concerned because they think the boat will come back to where they are. They wave their arms to try to attract attention.

Answer: True

While Susan has her face in the water checking for the coral formation Daniel mentioned, he sees a plane fly over. Still thinking the boat will return for them, he doesn't try to do anything to attract attention from the plane itself. They also see a container ship and a buoy later, and try swimming to both.

Answer: before

They see the first shark early on, but it doesn't come too close. Just after the 1.30 p.m. mark, a jellyfish stings Susan. Daniel is stung also, and after seeing the jellyfish, they swim a little way to get away from them. The actors, Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis, were actually in the water with both the sharks and the jellyfish during filming.

The movie was filmed by Chris Kentis and his wife Laura Lau over the course of two years, on the weekends and during vacations, for a budget of $130,000.

Answer: go skiing

After their predicament really sinks in and they realize the boat isn't coming for them, Susan and Daniel go through a phase where they begin blaming each other for the situation they're in. Daniel blames Susan's job for having to reschedule the vacation in the first place, and Susan says she wanted to go skiing.

Answer: the next morning

We see the boat operator finding the bag and pulling out Daniel and Susan's dive cards. He remembers the two and takes off down the pier with the bag. Someone from the hotel is seen checking Daniel and Susan's room to see if they are there. On their dive cards, we see Susan and Daniel's last names, hers is Watkins, and his is Kintner.

The names of two of the shark victims in "Jaws" were Chrissy Watkins and Alex Kintner.

Answer: Yes

Boats are seen heading for the area where the dive boat was, and airplanes are shown flying over the sea. As that chapter on the DVD is titled, too little, too late.

Answer: neither

During the evening of the first day they are in the ocean, Daniel is bitten in the leg by a shark. They spend a terrifying night, with Daniel being bitten again. The next morning, Daniel has died. Susan removes his tank and equipment, and lets him float away. After 24 hours in the water, with sharks circling and no rescue in sight, Susan removes her equipment and slips beneath the surface.

Since the movie opens with "based on true events", many people question how anyone knows what happened to the two people if neither survived. While based on a true occurrence (an American couple died after their dive boat left them off of the Great Barrier Reef in 1998), the movie isn't trying to tell the story of what really happened to the couple in 1998, it's telling what happened to a fictional couple who were put in the same situation.