Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, toward the end of World War II, two Japanese torpedoes sunk the USS […] ...

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.

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 ...

Enamored with the monologue from shark hunter Captain Quint about the demise of the USS Indianapolis, he learned the vessel was responsible for transporting the components for the atomic bomb.

True story of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, its crew's struggle to survive the sharks and exposure, and the captain's scape-goat court-martial.