Photograph of the USS Indianapolis discovered by the expedition crew of Paul Allen’s research vessel R/V Petrel. For Kohnen, the wreck doesn’t just stand out because of the loss of life, but because the ship itself was a favorite of the entire U.S. Naval College-and not just because of the tragedy. Hattendorf Center for Maritime Historical Research at the U.S. “I don’t see this as an average shipwreck,” says David A. intelligence had intercepted the calls, the military thought they were a Japanese trap and failed to come to the ship’s rescue.īy the time an airplane pilot spotted the wreck three and a half days later, the sailors that were still alive were hallucinating and near death. And help didn’t come, in part because the ship’s distress calls were ignored.
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Meanwhile, sharks circled, eating the dead and, eventually, attacking the surviving men- the worst shark attack in history (and an incident famously referenced in the movie Jaws). For days, they floated on parts of the annihilated warship, suffering from starvation and dehydration, their burnt skin blistering in the unforgiving sun. That was just the start of the ordeal for the roughly 900 sailors that survived the initial blast. The flaming ship sank in just 12 minutes. It came in the form of two torpedoes shot from the I-58, a Japanese submarine commanded by Mochitsura Hashimoto. Piece of the USS Indianapolis discovered by the expedition crew of Paul Allen’s research vessel R/V Petrel.
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