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You know, have some honor here for them. When the attack started, though, those in positions of authority like Ensign Harlan Twibble started cutting away the bodies and allowing them to sink because they were like, they're just going to keep attacking us like we can't. Well, like you were just saying, the sharks can literally smell.

You know, have some honor here for them. When the attack started, though, those in positions of authority like Ensign Harlan Twibble started cutting away the bodies and allowing them to sink because they were like, they're just going to keep attacking us like we can't. Well, like you were just saying, the sharks can literally smell.

And they were like, we're just kind of drawing them to us right now. So, and most of them were grabbed by the sharks before they could sink very far. Twibble said everybody was scared to death. These were all 18 and 19 year old kids. There wasn't any fighting, any turmoil, but everyone was scared.

And they were like, we're just kind of drawing them to us right now. So, and most of them were grabbed by the sharks before they could sink very far. Twibble said everybody was scared to death. These were all 18 and 19 year old kids. There wasn't any fighting, any turmoil, but everyone was scared.

Yeah. For an extended period of time, the survivors were more or less helpless and could do nothing more than listen to the screams and cries of their brothers, essentially, one by one as they were dragged off by white tips. Like, how do you even disassociate from that?

Yeah. For an extended period of time, the survivors were more or less helpless and could do nothing more than listen to the screams and cries of their brothers, essentially, one by one as they were dragged off by white tips. Like, how do you even disassociate from that?

Like, right next to you, the guy who you have been serving with and who you survived with gets dragged off screaming and you can't help them. That's so fucked. And then you just watch as they get mauled by a shark.

Like, right next to you, the guy who you have been serving with and who you survived with gets dragged off screaming and you can't help them. That's so fucked. And then you just watch as they get mauled by a shark.

They need to make it clear.

They need to make it clear.

Yeah. Now, by Tuesday morning, most of the groups had set up shark watches and worked in shifts to keep an eye out for anything on or just below the surface.

Yeah. Now, by Tuesday morning, most of the groups had set up shark watches and worked in shifts to keep an eye out for anything on or just below the surface.

Once the large group of white tips had picked off many of the dead and dying and faced the resistance from the injured and, you know, any of the able-bodied that could fight back, the attacks did begin to slow in frequency, but they remained a terrifying reality through the entire ordeal until the very end. Like, it never let up. No, of course not.

Once the large group of white tips had picked off many of the dead and dying and faced the resistance from the injured and, you know, any of the able-bodied that could fight back, the attacks did begin to slow in frequency, but they remained a terrifying reality through the entire ordeal until the very end. Like, it never let up. No, of course not.

McVeigh later said the kids who were in rafts by themselves on this one raft were scared to death of this shark because he kept swimming underneath the raft. You could see his big dorsal fin and it was white, almost as white as a sheet of paper. Apparently the shark spent most of his time on the surface and his fin had bleached out so he didn't blend in with the surface at all.

McVeigh later said the kids who were in rafts by themselves on this one raft were scared to death of this shark because he kept swimming underneath the raft. You could see his big dorsal fin and it was white, almost as white as a sheet of paper. Apparently the shark spent most of his time on the surface and his fin had bleached out so he didn't blend in with the surface at all.

And I was like, that sounds like the supervillain of sharks and I don't like that. Yes. Now, in the decades that followed, the tragedy of the Indianapolis would become synonymous with shark attacks. That's something that a lot of people know about it.

And I was like, that sounds like the supervillain of sharks and I don't like that. Yes. Now, in the decades that followed, the tragedy of the Indianapolis would become synonymous with shark attacks. That's something that a lot of people know about it.

And one of the things that really made it synonymous with it was a large soliloquy given by the character Quint in Steven Spielberg's 1975 film, Jaws. Quint was played by Robert Shaw, played wonderfully by Robert Shaw. I love Quint. He's awesome. I love Quint. And he was played as a gruff shark hunter whose hatred of sharks stemmed from his experiences surviving the USS Indianapolis.

And one of the things that really made it synonymous with it was a large soliloquy given by the character Quint in Steven Spielberg's 1975 film, Jaws. Quint was played by Robert Shaw, played wonderfully by Robert Shaw. I love Quint. He's awesome. I love Quint. And he was played as a gruff shark hunter whose hatred of sharks stemmed from his experiences surviving the USS Indianapolis.