Wow. Unimagineable. I hope we never have such a war again.
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Swimming with Sharks: Navy Physician Remembers the Indianapolis Disaster
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#12A truly disturbing yet essential read.
Sounds like the reports of shark attacks on the living were greatly exaggerated, but its no wonder if men were hallucinating from dehydration and fever.
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#13I 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.
I thought the same and was tense until the end, expecting at any moment a description of living people getting dragged away by sharks.
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#14I recommend the following book that details the U.S.S. Indianapolis.
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton (Mass Market Paperback)
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#15I 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.
It makes sense, humans are not normal food for sharks. However once you're dead you're just floating meat in the water, the shark can take you without risking any injury to itself. Sharks are more intelligent than we generally assume, most shark attacks are not to eat people, they take a chunk out of a person by mistake.
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#16Wow. Unimagineable. I hope we never have such a war again.
We won't. If any new conflict actually escalates to the proportions of a world war it'll be much much worse than the world wars of the past, it'll be a thermonuclear holocaust, an extinction scale event. Apparently, we as a species, have learned nothing.
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#17Sharks or no, it still had to be pretty terrifying to be floating in the ocean without knowing when or if you were going to be rescued. But, like most stories taken from actual events, there always seems to be a person or persons who step up to help others without regard to their own well-being. I hope Capt. Haynes received recognition for his efforts in keeping so many alive.
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#18I read recently that Steven Spielberg wanted to make Jaws 2 about the U.S.S. Indianapolis, but the studio took the series in another direction so he quit.
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#19I 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.
There's a "But what is the real story?"
happy to see some real and not deformed story about sharks
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#20I 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.
It makes sense, humans are not normal food for sharks. However once you're dead you're just floating meat in the water, the shark can take you without risking any injury to itself. Sharks are more intelligent than we generally assume, most shark attacks are not to eat people, they take a chunk out of a person by mistake.
I'm not sure that it is quite that clear-cut - if you are vaguely seal-shaped, and furthermore not moving with the speed and agility of a healthy seal, you might push a big shark's 'looks like food' button.
Staying together in a big, tight group might have been key.