"Ocean of fear" is on Discovery Channel. USS Indianapolis went through pure hell. Makes you appreciate living on land..

 

crap i wanted to watch that too!

 

no worries. They'll show again a few times..

 

brings to mind my favorite scene in jaws

Quint in jaws: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

 

Yep. A lot of drama added for that movie. A lot men (at least 300) died from the initial torpedo damge, then from drinking salt water. Some men didn't even see a shark. Sharks did eat most of the dead bodies. Only a few who were alive were actually attacked. But they saw the sharks and did have to survive the attacks that did occur. Very intriguing story as told by the survivors and the documentors.. I stayed glued to my seat the whole time. Even through the countless commercials.. It reairs at 1 am I think.. oh and BTW they were carrying components for the atomic bomb. Not the actual bomb. LOL

 

i caught it from 915 to 10 which was the end. i missed the first hour and 15 minutes.

 

anyone down for some water skiing off the coast off South Africa lol?

 

yep..saw it..pretty scary...

 

yup watching it right now. Just got to the part when they start to kill each other

 

I read the book about it a few years ago. Worst part is that they actually brought the Japanese Captian back to the states at the Court Marshal of the US Captain to testify against him. He was blamed for all that loss of life and then later exonerated (sp?) just a few years ago.

 

I was at a beach called "Avila" here in california, the same weekend i was there some lady got ripped in half by a great white.

Also witnessed a smaller great white (13 foot) pulled out of Morro Bay... that was interesting.

The beach I normally stay at gets populated with elephant seals, when they turn up the beaches within like a...20 mile radius or something get shut down due to sharks being around. Most of the time they aren't great whites because of the water temperature, but they do turn up.

 

its even sadder that the US captain killed himself 2 years later

 

damn! i forgot about it, but i just looked they are replayin it on august 5th (i think that was the date). looked interesting for sure

 

everytime i walk into the other room my old man is constantly watching this.

pretty awesome, one of the few things we can sit down and watch together and actually agree on

 

well who is going to watch the dealdy stripes 2night?

 

I have to wait for the weekends if I'm not working to watch anything on prime time.. Plus I missed NHRA drags on ESPN Sunday cause I watched sharks.. LOL

 

picture in picture

 

I must be the only one watching it everynight. But if anyone else is did ya think the color test and the meat test w/ all the diffrent sharks was cool?
i did