Swimming with Sharks: Navy Physician Remembers the Indianapolis Disaster

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Post by curtis » Sat, Jul 07, 2018, 10:28 PM UTC

Swimming with Sharks: Navy Physician Remembers the Indianapolis Disaster
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Post by marcelftw » Mon, Jul 09, 2018, 9:58 AM UTC

I don't get it ... from the intro it seems the shark took away living human down in the water. From the conclusion, it seems the shark only bite the dead humans floating with the living human. Not even "taking them" ... a weird read.

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Post by lawlessone » Mon, Jul 09, 2018, 10:01 AM UTC

marcelftw wrote: post #2

I don't get it ... from the intro it seems the shark took away living human down in the water. From the conclusion, it seems the shark only bite the dead humans floating with the living human. Not even "taking them" ... a weird read.

The bit at the start is the editors note that seems to be wrong.

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Post by Waterluvian » Mon, Jul 09, 2018, 10:15 AM UTC

marcelftw wrote: post #2

I don't get it ... from the intro it seems the shark took away living human down in the water. From the conclusion, it seems the shark only bite the dead humans floating with the living human. Not even "taking them" ... a weird read.

The editor's note reminds us of a story told in a movie. The interview concludes with a testimony that it didn't happen that way.

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Post by RickJWagner » Mon, Jul 09, 2018, 11:53 AM UTC

Wow. Unimagineable.

I hope we never have such a war again.

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Post by speg » Mon, Jul 09, 2018, 12:19 PM UTC

marcelftw wrote: post #2

I don't get it ... from the intro it seems the shark took away living human down in the water. From the conclusion, it seems the shark only bite the dead humans floating with the living human. Not even "taking them" ... a weird read.

The editors note at the beginning also asks: "But what is the real story?"

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Post by rolal » Mon, Jul 09, 2018, 12:48 PM UTC

This is the second in a series of three articles. The first and third parts are http://navymedicine.navylive.dodlive.mil/archives/9200 and http://navymedicine.navylive.dodlive.mil/archives/9242 They are all worth reading.

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Post by joekrill » Mon, Jul 09, 2018, 1:31 PM UTC

I don't suppose there's any way to listen to the audio of these? Is it public? Or online? All of the "oral history" links are 404s.

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Post by michaelcampbell » Mon, Jul 09, 2018, 2:15 PM UTC

I wonder how many people were introduced to this story from that scene in "Jaws"...

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Post by joshstrange » Mon, Jul 09, 2018, 2:26 PM UTC

Dear god, the scrolling is breakneck due to some stupid JS plugin or something