The in-depth story of the USS Indianapolis Disaster. Burn on their sinking ship or brave the shark-infested waters of the Pacific.

On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis landed on Tinian ... saltwater poisoning, shark attack—even homicide, when men began slipping into hallucinatory madness, stabbing and ...

The celebrated USS Indianapolis was nearly blown in half ... Subjected to dehydration, heat, delirium from drinking salt water, and shark attacks, only 316 would make it out of the water alive.

oceanic whitetip sharks have been involved in three fatal attacks on humans, but many more may have came during the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in World War II, where survivors faced shark ...

This story was originally published July 23, 1998 in the Chaska Herald. Paul Murphy always keeps fresh oranges in his house. He doesn’t make too much of this. In fact, ...

When the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis sank in July 1945, as many as 80 of the sailors’ deaths were blamed on shark attacks as survivors drifted for five days in the “shark-infested waters ...

was a cargo ship commissioned in December 1918 and decommissioned in July 1919. • USS Indianapolis (SSN-697) was a Los Angeles-class attack submarine in service from 1980 to 1998.