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[jaws]once they attached the barrels to the shark could they have just gone home and waited for it to die of exhaustion?
gpt
Locals had already caught a tiger shark and declared the problem gone before the boy was killed.  Politically, there needs to be definitive proof that the killer shark is dead.

While waiting for the shark to die of exhaustion might be an option, returning home without a dead shark is not.  The shark could disappear into open waters and die there unseen and unknown.  That’s not going to be acceptable, since in the absence of a great white corpse, the town will have to assume that the shark is alive.  So the *Orca* needs to keep on top of the shark.  And the shark’s attack on the boat necessitates the crew actively killing it, because otherwise the shark would kill them first.