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Deep Blue Sea (1999) More at IMDbPro »

• There are a number of in-jokes in the movie, including: - the license plate pulled from the shark's teeth is the same plate found in the tiger shark in Jaws (1975). - Director Renny Harlin has a cameo as one of the employees leaving the facility early in the movie (he's the one with long, blonde hair and sunglasses).
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Renny Harlin] [Finland] There is a small Finnish flag in Janice's room. In the kitchen there is a dry erase board with a shopping list. The first item is "Finnish pancakes." Helsinki (Finland's capital city) is also mentioned. Finlandia vodka drunk in some shots also comes from Finland.
  
  
• The seaplane used in this film is the same one used in Six Days Seven Nights (1998).
  
  
• The orange colored mini-sub visible in the wet-entry area was the same mini-sub seen in the end of Sphere (1998), also starring Samuel L. Jackson.
  
  
• The 11 February 1998 draft of the script credits the following writers: Duncan Kennedy and John Zinman, Simon Barry, Michael Frost Beckner, C.M. Talkington, Donna Powers and Wayne Powers. Duncan Kennedy, Donna Powers and Wayne Powers are the only writers credited in the final film.
  
  
• The 3 sharks are killed in the same ways and the same order as the sharks in Jaws (1975), Jaws 2 (1978) and Jaws 3-D (1983).
  
  
• Preacher's description of Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity (Tom Scoggins: "I spent four years at CalTech, and that's the best physics explanation I've ever heard.") is adapted from a quote by Einstein himself: "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
  
  

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