 An accident during filming caused the Orca to begin sinking.  Steven Spielberg (I) (qv) began screaming over a bullhorn for the  nearby safety boats to rescue the actors. A sound technician,  already up to his knees in water on the sinking Orca, held his tape  recorder up over his head and screamed, "F**k the actors, save the  sound crew!" Divers later recovered the camera and flew it, still  submerged in sea water, to a Hollywood film lab where technicians  were able to save the film.