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BC Cook“I'll never put on a life jacket again.”
The USS Indianapolis had just delivered materials for the atomic bomb to Tinian. It was ordered to the Philippines where it would prepare for the invasion of Japan. It never made it. On July 30, 1945, a week before the atomic bombings, a Japanese submarine sank the Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea. Its bow blown off from the first of two torpedoes, the ship went down in twelve minutes. 300 sailors went down with the ship and 900 went into the water. Because the ship sank so quickly and power was knocked out by the blasts,Cheap Canada Goose Mystique Parka Parka For Sale. no order to abandon ship was given and no preparations were made, such as the lowering of life rafts. The men entered the water wearing only life jackets, carrying no food, water or other survival gear. For most, they wished they had gone down with the ship.
The Tinian mission was so secret that the Indianapolis was not listed as overdue when it failed to show up in the Philippines. So no one was looking for the men in the water. They floated for five days.
Those that were severely injured or burned in the torpedo attack died first. Imagine the pain of having third-degree burns all over your body, covered in oil, and submerged in salt water. Death could not come fast enough.
Then the sharks came. Almost as if they knew of the smorgasbord, sharks arrived by the hundreds, perhaps thousands. The men organized into tight groups to fight off the sharks but it really did not make a difference. A shark would bite off a foot, leaving the man helpless and screaming in pain, then come back to finish him later.Next you needs to have a carefully consider the Canada Goose Calgary Jacket. His buddies in the water near him could not help and pushed him away lest the blood attract more sharks to the area. The sharks hit mainly in the afternoon and night. After a man was attacked and suffered a fatal bite the others sometimes took his life jacket and went through his pockets. If they were lucky the man had a morsel of food or a signal mirror. Hardly anyone had a weapon.For sale is a Men's HyBridge Jacket men's jacket. In such conditions even a stick or pocket knife would have been as good as a machine gun.
One terrible irony of being lost at sea is that drinking water is often the first resource to go. Most men had no water to begin with. After a day or two of unbearable thirst, some men took to drinking sea water. That was a huge mistake. Hallucinations and hysteria followed. A rumor spread that the Indianapolis had not sunk to the bottom after all,A daily blog on Canada Goose Whistler Parka and your favorite accessories. but was lying just below the surface under them. All they had to do was dive down and get food, water, even ice cream. Many men disappeared this way.
On the fourth day an airplane spotted the men floating below. Other planes came and they started picking up survivors. Ships arrived the next day, and that, according to survivors, was the worst time: waiting their turn. Having lived through five days of extreme horror, the men worried that a shark would get them in the final moments before being rescued. For some that did happen.
By Aug. 8, ten days after the ship went down, the search was called off. Of the original crew of twelve hundred, just over three hundred were rescued. The sharks and the sea took the rest.
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