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

The shark attacks of the USS Indianapolis remain a chilling reminder of the true horrors of the deep. A story not just of survival, but of a tragedy that should never have happened.

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.

HEARTSTOPPING footage shows the moment two giant whales move in to protect a diver from a bloodthirsty shark. Benoît Girodeau was diving off the coast of Mauritius when he was approached by an ...

You cannot visit the USS Indianapolis — it’s at the bottom of the Philippine Sea — but you can visit a 13-foot scale model at ...

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.

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 ...