"I don't blame the shark," he said. By the second day, their groups number had already dwindled to about 40, many succumbing to salt poisoning when their extreme thirst drove them to gulp down mouthfuls of seawater instead. Between 50 and 150 people died as a result of shark attacks. A massive search operation was immediately launched with Robert Adrian Marks first to arrive on the scene in an amphibious plane. Lady Duff-Gordon escaped another sinking when illness prevented her from setting sail on the Lusitania, which was torpedoed by German submarines during World War I. On the second day, the men were able to drink a few drops of rainwater that fell by catching it in their mouths. North Mankato, MN: Capstone Publishers, 2006; Oral History -The Sinking of USS Indianapolis, On Naval Historical Center, September 1, 1999. I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 - Goodreads She remembers how her mother made her father go up on deck to check out what had happened, literally pulling him out of bed, she said, and after he returned, her parents quickly and without a word got bundled to go back up. For those for whom staying afloat was not an immediate concern, there were other dangers. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000; Marc Nobleman. Carpathia passenger/Public domain. But now, on July 28, the Indianapolis sailed from Guam, without an escort, to meet the battleship USS Idaho in the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines and prepare for an invasion of Japan. It was 41-years ago that "Jaws" left America trembling in fear. Charles Lightoller, the Titanics Second Officer, was in charge of lowering lifeboats on the port side during the disaster. These cold temperatures are not conducive to the survival of most shark species, as they require warmer waters to maintain their body temperature. This oversight was due to both human error and the nature of their mission, so top-secret that they somehow appeared to have disappeared from the U.S. Navys radar altogether. Bowerman later became a nurse in World War I and also witnessed the Russian Revolution while she was stationed there in 1917. In horror, I would take what I thought would be my last breath and bend my knees up to my chest. What they thought was their lucky day was just the beginning of the worst shark nightmare in history.
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