Survivors of the Us. S Indianapolis

Survivors describe being surrounded by fins in the water, or seeing other men's life jackets suddenly submerge. Captain lewis l haynes, chief medical officer, was with one of the larger groups who were floating in the water. He tried to render aid to the other men, even though he had no supplies or medicines to do it with. The sharks mainly fed on the dead and dying, but they were easily visible through the clear water by day,. Then they'd brush past the submerged parts of men's bodies by night.