Goofs for
Open Water (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Susan and Daniel's snorkels change from the left side to the right side of their heads and back several times (divers always wear them on the left).
  
  
• Continuity: During the movie the tank caps change color, most of the time they are red but sometimes one is green or black.
  
  
• Continuity: The length of Daniel's sideburns varies throughout the movie. Specially between the hotel room's scenes and the water shots.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: When Daniel and Susan are lying on the beach, and Daniel gets up to go for a swim, Chris Kentis is reflected in Susan's sunglasses.
  
  
• Continuity: All four of Susan's hose protectors, where the hoses attach to the first stage, start off being yellow. Towards the end of the film two are either missing or change color.
  
  
• Continuity: Susan's octopus (the yellow spare regulator) goes from being unattached to her BCD to attached and back again throughout the film.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the film despite going to bed without any clothes Daniel miraculously (and thankfully) gains a pair of briefs for the middle of the night mosquito swatting scene, before waking the next morning. Presumably this an effort by the director to keep the film rating as low as possible. But why not make him go to sleep with a pair of briefs on in the first place?
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Daniel and Susan first submerge, they are still talking to each other despite having regulators in their mouths.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Susan asks, "Where's the boat?", they are in the shadow of the camera boat.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: After both have been in the water for quite a while they drop their weight belts to make them more buoyant. At the end of the movie and after Daniel dies, Susan drops her tanks and submerges. That is impossible to do consider she is wearing some sort of suit which gives additional buoyancy. That is why they are wearing weight belts in the first place - to offset that additional flotation in their suits.
  
  

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