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What caused the Orca‘s engines to burn out?

Retry Correct Incorrect In a Captain Ahab-like moment, Quint’s obsession with bringing the shark down led him to try and tow it to shallow waters, where it wouldn’t be able to breathe. However, it was too powerful to move this way and Quint’s persistence ended up burning out the engines.

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What caused the Orca‘s engines to burn out?

• Quint didn’t have enough money to maintain them
• Mayor Vaughn sabotaged the boat before. they set out
• Quint tried to tow the struggling shark to shallow waters and burnt them out
• The shark bit into them