The Real Story of the USS Indianapolis Part 2 - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast

Ship Hits The Fan

Rooster Teeth

Documentary, Society & Culture, History, True Crime

4.4 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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July 28th, 1945 - The USS Indianapolis set out from Guam after dropping off the components for the bomb destined for Hiroshima. Two days later, the Indianapolis had sunk. A third of her crew was dead and the rest clung desperately to life boats as the sharks circled. Follow us on social: https://twitter.com/mc_lotta https://twitter.com/handsomemaster2 Are you a FIRST Member and need your Private RSS feed for this show? Go here: bit.ly/FIRSTRSS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a rooster teeth production.
0:04.0	July 28, 1945, the USS Indianapolis set out from Guam after dropping off the components for the bomb dropped over Hiroshima.
0:21.7	Two days later, the Indianapolis had sunk. A third of her crew was dead, and the rest of her crew
0:26.6	clung desperately to lifeboats as the sharks circled. I'm Charlotte. I'm Patrick.
0:32.0	Ahoy and welcome aboard Ship Hits the Fan, a podcast about some of history's most notable uh-ohs and whoopsies on the high seas.
0:39.3	Get this. 1,100 men go to the water, right? Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
0:45.3	I didn't see the first shark for about half an hour.
0:48.3	Sounds familiar. Tiger, 13 footer. And you know how you know that when you're in the water, chief?
0:55.9	You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail.
0:58.8	Yeah.
0:59.3	What we didn't know was our bomb mission had been so secret that no distress signal had been sent.
1:04.9	This happened to you?
1:05.9	You're saying this was something that happened to you?
1:07.9	Yeah.
1:08.3	I remember it pretty clearly.
1:12.2	Because like, I remember this from Jaws.
1:14.9	Yeah.
1:15.1	Oh, Jaws.
1:15.9	I'm thinking of the movie Jaws.
1:18.5	Right.
1:19.1	I'm thinking of Stephen Spielberg's Jaws.
1:22.7	Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
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