USS Indianapolis discovered 18,000 feet below Pacific surface

[signalmankenneth]

This was the ship that delivered the atomic bomb that was to be drop on Hiroshima.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/us/uss...und/index.html

[Nomad]

[evince]

best part of that whole movie

[Nomad]

best part of that whole movie

I liked the part right between the beginning and the end.

[evince]

Oh it was a fun ride


that was just my favorite part

[Nomad]

Oh it was a fun ride


that was just my favorite part

I should've said I liked the part right between the first frame and the last frame.

Same with CE3K.

Two of my all time favorite movies that I never tire of watching.

[evince]

decent ride too

[cancel2 2022]

I went drinking at a small pub in a place called Tourmakeady in County Mayo back in the 70s. It was where my father was born and Robert Shaw lived up in the hills in the Partry Mountains. He came in around 8pm and was already three sheets to the wind by then but he was a born raconteur and he bought drinks for everybody there. Sadly he died a couple of years later of a heart attack whilst driving his car, he was only 51.

[signalmankenneth]

As of July 27, 2015, there were 31 remaining members of the crew of the USS Indianapolis. I hope some of them are still alive to hear they found their ship.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...s-sharks-jaws/

[Buckly J. Ewer]

Didn’t see the first shark for about half an hour – a tiger – thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’. So we formed ourselves into tight groups…the idea was, the shark comes to the nearest man and he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and screamin’. Sometimes the shark go away. Sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya, right into your eyes. Y’know, the thing about a shark, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then – aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’, the ocean turns red, and in spite of all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and rip ya to pieces…in that first dawn, we lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I don’t know how many men. They averaged six an hour…Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us…and he come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY [seaplane] comes down and start to pick us up. You know, that was the time I was most frightened – waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

Word is that, a lot of this soliloquy was ad-libbed re-worked by Shaw himself, Shaw was, for real, drunk for the filming of the first take that proved unusable. The next day he delivered the scene sober and nailed it, delivered largely in one take
One of the most compelling and best acted scenes in this amazing film, it at last reveals the motivations and backstory of the films mysterious central character, shark killer Quint.
The scene allowed these three disparate spatting characters to bond and make the last reel an adventure quest against a common adversary.
The best part is that Quint's backstory was historically accurate.

[Buckly J. Ewer]

Here is a Quint-like soliloquy from a real Indianapolis survivor, Edgar Harrell, ...
It is at least as compelling as Shaw's brilliant performance.