The US Navy Crew That Was Devoured By Sharks
Being sent to the bottom is scary enough without blood thirsty marine predators
The story of the USS Indianapolis is a tragic one on multiple levels. It was one of the last major ships to be sank during World War II. The torpedoes that sent her to the bottom were fired on July 30th, 1945, less than two weeks from the end of hostilities. After she was hit, the US Navy did not realize that they had lost a ship for days following the incident. They thought the ship was still en rout to its destination so no rescue was organized until it was too late for many. No one realized the Indianapolis had been destroyed until a naval patrol craft chanced upon dozens of men floundering in the open sea.
Then there were the sharks.
The sinking
The USS Indianapolis had finished a secret mission in which it was ferrying large amounts of enriched uranium to the Marianas Islands to support the military’s efforts in deploying the first set of nuclear bombs. The mission was so secret that no one on board the ship knew the contents of the crates that they were carrying, not even the…
