Floyd, the newspaper reporter (Bob J. Shield), was dressed in the exact same style of clothes as worn by Darren McGavin's character Carl Kolchak in the 1974-75 tv series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker", who was also a newspaper reporter in that series.
The headline on the front page of an edition of a newspaper in this 1978 film read: ''Chemical Plant Creates Killers In The Deep''. The bottom of the sea movie 'The Deep' had debuted just the previous year in 1977.